December ABS results confirm shift in Christmas shopping behaviour

The National Retail Association (NRA) has said that today’s Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) retail trade figures for December...

The National Retail Association (NRA) has said that today’s Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) retail trade figures for December 2019 confirm that Christmas shopping behaviour by Australian consumers has shifted. Following a gigantic increase of 0.9 per cent in November, the December sales data reveals a drop in retail turnover...

Read More

Coronavirus: Frequently asked questions by employers in the midst of an outbreak

By Thomas Parer and Lindsay Carroll, NRA Legal As we’ve entered a new year, we’ve seen the emergence of...

By Thomas Parer and Lindsay Carroll, NRA Legal As we’ve entered a new year, we’ve seen the emergence of a new danger, in the form of the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. The first cases were reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan, in Hubei Province on 31 December...

Read More

Message from the CEO: Tuesday 4 February 2020

It hasn’t exactly been a good news start to 2020, with Australia having been gripped by unprecedented bushfires and...

It hasn’t exactly been a good news start to 2020, with Australia having been gripped by unprecedented bushfires and much of the country remaining in drought. Now headlines around the world are being dominated by the latest health pandemic to arise, the deadly Coronavirus. The infectious disease has seen the...

Read More