Yes chrisgaff1000, I can but agree. I could never quite figure out why people thought 24/7 shopping was a good idea.

I suppose it makes life easy for the government employee, always with weekends off, but for the rest, just a change in circumstances could see any of them working nights or weekends.

Not only that, but it made everything so much more expensive. People only have the same amount of money to spend. 24/7 can not get any more out of them, there's is nothing more to spend.

By spreading the time given to shop, the retailer has 2 days & 5 nights more to staff, for no more turnover. Perhaps the big chains do get a bit from the little bloke, who can't afford to pay extra staff, & is too tired to open more hours themselves. If they do it is so little that prices had to go up to cover the extras staff, earning penalty rates for the extra hours.

Yep a bad idea no matter how you look at it.

The whole point of extended hours opening was so the big traders got more than their share of what business was available. Its not quite the done thing in big-business land to let anyone else get even the dregs.

I have a pair of "rose coloured glasses" for sale, letting them go for only 4/6 1/2 (four and sixpence halfpenny).
Prox you rang his Canberra office. HE'S GOT A TELEPHONE! I'm mortified. Next thing I'll know you'll be telling me he has the electric light, heaven forbid.
I certainly have sympathy for low paid (adults) and extremely low paid (children) shop assistants and the hours that they are forced to work to boost the mega profits of the super rich retailers, Gerry Harvey included.
The honest politician died the day Robin (brown Paper Bag) Askin, carked it in 75. Changed his name to Robert, thought Robin was to girlie, he was right, he was an old sheila, and a member of the Liberal Party.

chrisgaff 1000 yes I remember , my day was welded to the keg at local cricket, back turned to the game.
We should understand the loss of that Saturday and Sunday blindingly boring, made new jobs.
Some work only on weekends, some shops do most trade on weekends.
Tourism local and international, thrives on shopping then or just having a coffee.
DLP? Catholicism at its most controlling.
No as I have no choice but to do my own shopping I want the 24/7.

Anti DLP or anti Mad dog Praxi?
I think it is a perfect time to consider a third party for the lower house. Given the DLP policy platform is really just old Labor common sense with a strong streak of nationalism, a load of disillusioned Labor voters may send a tick their way?

I agree with many of the DLP policies, but who would they align with?

Praxi, forget about Mad Dog, he's got a touch of the Bob Askins. I am happy to hear a candidate or politician say what they think. The major parties are so stage managed that they may as well flip the autocue and let us read it for ourselves.

Paul1405,
Here we go again. You can't keep an old copper down. I once busted Robin's (ol' cock robin)'bag-man' I real social prat called Malcolm Johns. He was a debarred solicitor who lost his brief for his part in the business migration scams. He drove a white Rolls Royce and carted his Diana Dors around with him every Friday to collect the 'brown paper bags'
If you think old Jo knew a bit about 'brown paper bags' Robin left him at the post.
Anyway the bird started singing too much (the weed was just getting a hold on society) at a party in Mosman so they threw her out onto Avenue Rd in a blinding rainstorm, stoned out of her brain, to get run over. Unfortunately for them we came along from a job down the road and picked her up. She finished up in Witness Protection and he finished up in the "Bay". You really couldn't get more "liberal" than Robin.
Just an insight into Politicians either side. Then there was Lionel Murphy, ALP stalwart. He managed to pass on just as he was about to be charged before the bar of the parliament.