It is interesting to compare JPosts Zionist propaganda interpretation of this to The Conversation and ABCs rational and balanced reporting on the issue.
We must be going to different stores on different days.
All the Local IGAs in my area employ single mums and more mature staff members.
The only young employees I see are family members of the owners.
The big IGA in a nearby town employs the same demographics of staff members; they even have a professional Butcher on staff (and they have excellent value cuts of meat) (I used to deliver for a butcher when I was younger and have seen some dodgy butchers and some overpriced dodgy butchers and some excellent butchers.)
There are other ways to source your hardware and tools.
Discount Stores and Home/Mitre 10/Total Tools/Sydney Tools/etc are still around.
Wholesale material suppliers are often willing to sell Retail as long as you don’t waste their staffs time. The One True Monopsony (Amazon) also sell most of the stuff from Bunnings, cheaper.
Also AliExpress and Temu have most of the small consumables at a much competitive price. Just remember that some of it will be eWaste in a few months, but that goes for any electronics purchased from anywhere.
The main benefit of Bunnings is that they are open long hours and have lowest-common-denominator products that aren’t too overpriced
Also, you buy a sausage made of sawdust and beef fat on the way out (very tasty, although not very healthy.)
I’m cleaning pigeon guano off solar panels and gutters tomorrow morning on the 2-storey roof. I don’t want to fall off.
Hopefully Sunday will be in solar-powered, air-conditioned comfort tomorrow at home, rather than solar-powered air-conditioned comfort of the local Trauma ward.
As a customer that has their own UniFi Security Gateway and also ran services from home during the old BigPond Cable days, everything that Nath has said is correct.
Back in the 90’s BigPond used to do everything possible to prevent us from running our own unmetered file sharing network. We had a set of relays and proxies which meant that we were able to share files with other BigPond users, bypassing the billing system.
I am sure that the Management at BigPond Cable hated this while the Technicians (who also had BigPond Cable) enabled it.
Mainly due to the density of the population.
The Australian population is quite sparse, mainly because we never got our Multifunction Polis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifunction_Polis