Media Release

The NSW Return and Earn program has reached a major recycling milestone with 8 billion bottles, cans and drink cartons returned since 2017. Minister for Environment James Griffin said the initiative has fundamentally shifted people’s behaviour, turning what was once seen as waste into a now-valuable resource for the recycling...

Retail profitability in Australia has bounced back to pre-Covid levels for the first time since the pandemic began, the economic insights report released by the National Retail Association has been revealed. The figures show the sector’s profits have increased by 4.9 percent year on year for the June quarter, following a...

Proposed industry-wide bargaining would create an “inequitable, unsuitable, and ultimately redundant” bargaining system, according to a retail industry position paper released today. The National Retail Association analysis of the proposed changes says they would create an enterprise bargaining system that was “simply blind to the intricacies and individualities of independent...

Retailers are continuing to call for the Albanese Government to lower expenses for small and medium-sized businesses by mandating least-cost routing. The latest Retail Payment data for July released by the Reserve Bank showed a 27.3 percent increase in total card payments year on year, of which the payment fees,...

The National Retail Association welcomes the Victorian Government’s release of educational resources to help SMEs better understand how they can close the gender pay gap. The materials developed by Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (VEOHRC) give the state the opportunity to create large-scale change from the ground up. The...

Peak industry body the National Retail Association (NRA) has welcomed the South Australian government’s move to implement tougher penalties for people who abuse retail workers, coming into effect today. Chief Executive Dominique Lamb said the NRA supports all efforts to tackle the abuse of retail workers. “South Australia’s decision to inflict...

High failure rates among Australian businesses should be a red flag to the Federal Government to tread carefully with policy reforms, the nation’s retailers have warned. Responding to ABS figures reports of a 12.7 per cent failure rate in the nation’s businesses last financial year, National Retail Association CEO Dominique...

Active Super has launched Active Super Booster, a reward program allows members to boost their super balances when shopping instore and online at more than 300 retail partners across 2,000 locations around Australia. With the new ‘set and forget’ reward program, once members link their debit or credit card(s), a...

The Palaszczuk Government is supporting the recovery of small and medium-sized businesses by injecting a $300 million boost from Buy Queensland procurement initiative. The National Retail Association welcomes Queensland’s Government’s decision to lift the Buy Queensland small and medium business procurement target from 25 percent to 30 percent, resulting in...

We’ve seen multiple examples in the media today of the pressures on small businesses, from soaring wage costs to supply chain pressures. The National Retail Association warns that these pressures are simply unsustainable. We welcome the suggestion from the Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, Andrew Leigh, that the...

The National Retail Association has backed the Palaszczuk Government’s trading hours reforms and thanked the Government for listening to the views of all businesses rather than a small group of vested interests. Representing both large and small businesses across the state, the NRA said the new laws offered more flexible...