Retailers welcome the announcement to change close contact isolation rules in Victoria and New South Wales this weekend, anticipating it will lessen the burden of labour shortages throughout the industry....

Woolworths Group has announced its intention to introduce a new requirement for Australian team members to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the coming months. The policy is intended to strengthen...

The much anticipated re-opening of retail and hospitality in NSW is set to happen within weeks when the state passes its 70% double vaccination target, under the roadmap to freedom released...

Colliers has released ‘The Future of Retail Demand: The Road to Recovery’ report on how COVID-19 has reconfigured the retail landscape and what the future looks like. With two major states –...

The Business Council of Australia has coordinated ‘An open letter from the business community’ collectively asking governments across the country to work together and implement the National Plan and chart a uniform...

Western Health delivers Australia’s first drive-through COVID-19 vaccination hub at QICGRE’s Woodgrove Shopping Centre, making a vital service as accessible, safe and convenient as possible for the residents of western...

Glenquarie Town Centre, located in the heartlands of south-west Sydney is home to the newest and largest mass COVID-19 vaccination hub – the South Western Sydney Vaccination Centre. The state-of-the-art vaccination facility opened...

Vicinity’s Bayside Shopping Centre in Melbourne’s south east has welcomed a new COVID-19 vaccination hub, the first of its kind in Victoria.  Taking advantage of Bayside’s strategic location in the heart of...

More than $8 billion worth of retail trade is now at risk nationally with the COVID lockdown in Victoria extended for another seven days and South Australia in lockdown joining...

Yesterday, Gladys Berejiklian, NSW Premier announced given the number of infectious cases in the community, the current lockdown will be extended for at least another two weeks until 11:59pm on Friday...

New research by Deloitte Access Economics shows Melbourne’s CBD economy will grow by $6 billion in 2021 and is on-track to return to pre-COVID levels by late 2024. The research...

The Shopping Centre Council of Australia (SCCA) today reiterated its standing offer to support the vaccine rollout, first made to chief medical officers and state governments earlier in the year. ...

Today, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced the current lockdown restrictions will be extended for another week until 11:59pm, Friday 16 July, given the ongoing cases of community transmission and following...

The Victorian Government has today announced an extension to lockdown measures affecting Metropolitan Melbourne, with restrictions to continue until 11.59pm, Thursday June 10 before gradual further easing. The Australian Retailers Association...

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,...

Proving health and safety can be entertaining, Vicinity Centres’ Chatswood Chase has taken an inventive approach to ensuring the community feels safe at their local centre. The Centre conducted ongoing...

Six Mirvac shopping centres across Sydney have launched an appeal for the community to support donations in a charity food drive to help people hit by hardship during the pandemic. Collections...

With Stage 4 lockdown restrictions in place across metropolitan Melbourne, people are only allowed to go out and travel up to 5 km for necessary goods and services like supermarket, pharmacy,...

This week, as Melbourne heads into stage 4 lockdown, non-essential retail closes and supermarkets once again feel the brunt of panic-shoppers, Francis Loughran of Future Food examines how F&B has been...

Mirvac Retail has today mandated masks be worn by all their staff in their centres where they are public facing to further enhance their safety and prevention procedures for the...

In the toughest restrictions to retail to date, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announced today all retail will close with the exception of supermarket, fresh food stores and pharmacies. The new...

Vicinity Centres today announced independent valuations of its 60 directly-owned retail properties, which have resulted in a net valuation decline for the overall portfolio of 11.3% or $1.79 billion for...

The Morrison Government announced yesterday it will deliver more support for households and businesses to help Australians through the COVID-19 pandemic and bolster the economic recovery. It’s news welcomed by...

Mirvac Retail has announced another new innovation to help its shopping centre customers navigate busy periods and time manage their physical trip to the shops via the centre website and...

The pandemic is not stopping the rooftop urban farm at Burwood Brickworks in Melbourne from producing top quality fruit and vegetables. Under a new partnership between the shopping centre, acre...

Precision Group launched their WELCOME BACK campaign last week to celebrate the reopening of more and more retail stores and to ‘welcome back’ both customers and retailers to their five...

At Cassette as a creative agency, we are in the position of having a birds-eye view of what is happening across different companies from different sectors all across Australia. When...

McKinsey & Company has launched the second article in the online publishing series, The Story of the Australian Consumer – entitled ‘Emerging from COVID-19: Australians embrace their values’. The first...

Research powerhouse McKinsey have released a series of reports about ‘The Story of the Australian Consumer’ – exploring the unique impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on Australian consumer sentiment,...

Vicinity Centres provided their March 2020 quarterly update in response to COVID-19, announcing a number of sensible measures to ensure the organisation gets through this challenging retail period. As one...

Brisbane’s Wynnum Plaza is delivering care packages to community members who are struggling to buy the essentials during COVID-19, including the elderly, disadvantaged families and people with disability. The centre will...