opens from 8am to 8pm Sundays
If the local Woolies store in downtown Broken Hill can open from 8 till 8 on Sundays, why can't Queensland have more-sensible trading hours.
Most shops close around 4pm on Saturdays and Sundays in southeast Queensland and usually an hour later during the week.
The only good thing is that some supermarkets close around 9pm during the week.
The Queensland Industrial Relations Commission controls these hours with an iron rod.
It's time for all trading hours to be totally deregulated.
If you own a shop, you should be able to open and close it whenever you want.
Why should governments dictate when we can and can't shop?
Let's embrace the hours in Asia and many parts of the United States where shops open a little later and close around 10pm.
24-hour shopping should be encouraged in any precinct where it would be financially viable.
All this, provided workers receive appropriate overtime and penalty rates now that Work Choices has been scrapped.
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