Someone writing in The Sydney Morning Herald stated that she would like the unions to be up in arms at the suggestion Wal-Mart set up shop in Australia.
Who will take notice of the unions, though? The previous federal government emasculated them; treated them as though they were agents of darkness. Also a reminder that local big business has been allowed to infiltrate our country towns, causing thousands of small shops to disappear, and replacing country-town shopping streets by big city-controlled shopping malls.
The results have been a regular outflow of money from country towns to the headquarters of the big stores, and the payment by shopkeepers of inflated rents to absentee landlords such as Centro, Stockland, Westfield, AMP and others.
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