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Bunnings does not do well by its customers. Policy of Bunnings - trick the public. ◘1 Bunnings or Policy a is i to in Trick is Customers ◘1 Bunnings lies to you and gets away with it. "If you find a competitor's lower price on the same stocked item, we'll beat it by 10%." That is the promise. Ever wondered why you can never get the 10 percent. White labelling is the answer.   ◙2 Bunnings up Policy u is k to l Trickm Customers ◙2 This deception is getting the producer of a product to change it slightly. Or a good can be package in a unique size or weight. Of course people do get the calculator out and compare the real value, then buy elsewhere.  ⦿3 ⦿3 Clearly, many consumers have learned their lesson and do not trust the superstore . It is poor customer relations. The problem really is that the government has allowed the chain to buy up all competitors. Some towns that once had three or more hardware stores now must purchase at the one giant that is there.  ...

You cannot change culture by legislation. The Western Australian government is closing remote Aboriginal communities citing poor health, suicide and not much work. Aboriginal children are brought up in "strong" communities where they learn local languages and rituals passed down for generations. Closing communities will result in total loss of language and culture. How can Aboriginals buy housing in cities? They have no tradition of hereditary wealth or access to education to better one's life. White governments are absolutely responsible for the situation of modern day Aboriginals. White people forcibly took this country from them and forced them into the margins of society where they have remained for centuries. What remote Aboriginals need is more money from government. They have a right to live on their ancestral lands. They were born there. The WA government will be closing rural towns next. Where does this end? If Aboriginals decide to move back ...

The National Sustainability Council presented its long awaited report called the Sustainable Australia 2013: Conversations with the Future . This is the first of a series of biennial papers to advise the government about the state of the economy vis-a-vis the environment. Full of optimism, the newly founded council said the future looked bright if we changed to building sustainable communities. However, the type of community needed is far more radical than envisaged by the council. Despite Australia having many of the most livable cities in the world we need to start planning immediately for the kind of balanced society of the future. Oil will not be around forever and coal is too polluting to be used at such high rates. This means individuals driving around in five seater cars will not be possible. Electricity use is skyrocketing with Internet cloud servers and hungry mobiles gobbling up tonnes of coal and oil in power stations. Future cities will have to be designed with hou...