Interested in exploring the idea of Electric Vehicle charging bays in shopping centres? Yes, we’ve already got some – but could they be forced upon us (by legislation) in the...
Ask anyone in our industry – from the first-year executive to the CEO, “Why do shopping centres charge for parking after a certain free period?” You’ll get only one answer:...
Our industry as a whole, represented by the Shopping Centre Council of Australia (SCCA), has performed in an exemplary manner during the COVID-19 period. Shopping centres are the most visited,...
The quality of journalism in this country (with few exceptions that prove the rule), continues to plummet. When it comes to shopping centre issues, it would seem there is a...
The South Australian Government began a review of the Retail and Commercial Leases Act in 2014. A Bill has just been tabled proposing some 28 amendments to the Act. The...
A Parliamentary Inquiry Report was recently handed down in the ACT. In part, it deals with the unfairness of the ‘so-called’ ACT tax reforms of 2012/13 in relation to shopping...
Since the early days of our industry, the issue of turnover figures supplied by retailers to landlords has always been contentious. Whenever the issue was tabled, there was always an...
You might find this difficult to believe, but there is a move afoot to legislate for free parking in shopping centres for retail workers. The issue has incredibly wide implications....
The SCCA Marketing Awards are being fine-tuned in order to ensure they match the ever-changing nature of Centre Marketing. Some really exciting changes have resulted after an external review was...
Angus Nardi gives us an overview on trading hours reform in South Australia. He says that compromise and incrementalism is a potential trend that could continue. Shop trading hours reform...
It’s an extremely difficult task to bring myriad groups together to support a common cause. Our industry’s ‘Casual Mall Licensing Code of Practice’ was successfully re-authorised recently by the ACCC....
Sometimes, the evolution of public policy can feel a lot like the release of a ‘greatest hits’ album. There is an initial pique of excitement and curiosity, before you come back to reality...
Australia’s Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, recently launched a new national counter-terrorism strategy, which has specific relevance to shopping centre owners and operators...
Melbourne has been experiencing a serious wave of crime, and has become something of a national hotspot.
In late April 2017, NSW Deputy Premier and Minister for Small Business, John Barilaro, announced that the newly amended Retail Leases Act will commence...
1 July 2017 will mark a symbolic day. This is because, to channel the words of a former Prime Minister, a controversial tax loophole is due to be ‘dead, buried and cremated’...
If you think retail trading hours is a subject that’s more or less settled in this country, think again. In Queensland...
When authorities, whether local, state or federal, consider shopping centres, they often fail to link the centres with the community at large; instead, they are seen as property developments...
One of the reasons Australian shopping centres are the best in the world is that the planning and zoning systems in place are the best in the world...
In this article, Angus Nardi discusses the issue. It’s a reasoned, logical and pragmatic paper; but he leaves no room for a dissenting point of view, as quite frankly, there isn’t one!
The NSW Government is once again having a crack at introducing widespread Boxing Day trading.
Bruce Billson, as we’ve noted before, is regarded as one of the heroes of the Federal Government. He has a long list of achievements for small business to his name,...
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