“What Hours Should We Trade, ‘Mr Superstore’?”: A Review Of The 1994 Australian Experience

Abstract

This paper looks at the basis of the policy for the deregulation of trading hours and the debate that has occurred during 1994 on its implementation in various States in Australia. Such a policy is argued to be primarily an application of the economic rationalist ideology of the market deciding “when” and “where” consumers do their shopping. There is a fundamental interdependence between time, location in space and retail ownership. Therefore, the implementation of this policy is having ramifications for the three tiers of Government in Australia. The issue on a State level appears to be apolitical because of the impact that a large retailer can have on the State economy and the promotion of the individual's freedom to shop is attractive to voters. In NSW, the retail aggregate spacetime trip (RASTT) model suggests that the trading hours should have only been extended in 1992 by a maximum of five hours. This would have avoided a whole range of social and economic issues now facing Local Government in the allocation of new retail capacity.

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