Should Western Australia have extended trading hours?

[GIGS20]

They objected to the disguise reference!

[Happy]

loved alston's cartoon in the west this morning

[normie]

I tried that once and got frog marched out by security.......maybe it had something to do with me calling them "Nazis in Disguise" (after the game of course)

Fascists despise being called Nazis!

[jono]

Usually only in the school holidays though. Rocko and Mandurah have this and it's handy, it doesn't seem to kill small business any more than any of the anti-competitive crap wollies and coles aready pull.....as a matter of fact, Rocko shopping centre is extending ATM with lots MORE specialty stores being put in. (OK most of them are national chains, but many are franchises and therefore still small business)

also evens out the buisness from a saturday as well. saturdays are a bit more cruisy when there is sunday trading. sundays are still pretty slow though

[Fullback]

Coles in Alice Springs is open 24hrs. For crying out loud, deregulate trading hours (You're right tragic).

Extended trading hours would be a great start.

jmho.

[jargan83]

Hobart with 1/5 of the population of Perth has deregulated Shopping Hours

[Darren]

I'm pro somesort of deregulation, but I have my mothers voice running through my head after the last couple posts...

"and if Hobart jumped off a cliff ....."

[normie]

I'm pro somesort of deregulation, but I have my mothers voice running through my head after the last couple posts...

"and if Hobart jumped off a cliff ....."

...a quantity of people equal to 1/5 of the population of Perth would become Lemmings?

...Launceston would follow?

[Happy]

hahaha love it Normie

[GIGS20]

I'm pro somesort of deregulation, but I have my mothers voice running through my head after the last couple posts...

"and if Hobart jumped off a cliff ....."

Hobart's jumping off a cliff??? I'm there!

[normie]

Perth couldn't jump off cliff... The cliffs are all closed at 5:00 p.m.

[Happy]

Maybe we should shut down this forum between 5pm and 9am so you can all spend time with your families???

[zimeric]

has anyone thought that the survey justification labour gave was based on tainted data?

the big issue i have with that is that everyone can vote on this not just the people that go to the shops on a thursday evening. so if you go to the shops on thursday evening and survey 100 people or what ever it was..quite simply, you're not going to get an honest sample...

now i have no idea what the general population would say but its fairly clear that the members of this site have endorsed it.. and we have a fairly even spread of constituents to make it a more honest snapshot.

[Happy]

TWF is the home of all things "correct" .. DLS and Extended Shopping

[Swee_82]

has anyone thought that the survey justification labour gave was based on tainted data?

the big issue i have with that is that everyone can vote on this not just the people that go to the shops on a thursday evening. so if you go to the shops on thursday evening and survey 100 people or what ever it was..quite simply, you're not going to get an honest sample...

now i have no idea what the general population would say but its fairly clear that the members of this site have endorsed it.. and we have a fairly even spread of constituents to make it a more honest snapshot.

They have the results of the 2005 referendum to back them up too. I wasn't here at the time- was that general extended trade or Sunday trade only? Is there a significant difference in public opinion between the two? Of course, they have since supported an extended trade policy while they were still in govenment, which dissapeared in the name of partisan politics this time around.

To answer the original question though, surely no-one at Labor HQ thought asking people in a shopping centre in the middle of the day whether they needed extended hours constituted robust research? Perhaps I'm being too forgiving in assuming they were just being crafty rather than stupid.