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Article: Vic: No Easter Sunday exemption for city traders, Bracks
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- February 14, 2003
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Vic: No Easter Sunday exemption for city traders, Bracks
By Ben Packham
MELBOURNE, Feb 14 AAP - Victorian Premier Steve Bracks today dismissed
a bid to have
city retailers made exempt from a ban on Easter Sunday trading.
Melbourne Lord Mayor John So had called for the exemption, saying
the ban would harm
the city's reputation as a retail destination.
Mr Bracks said some exemptions would be available for special events
and activities,
but indicated further exemptions were not being considered.
He said banning Easter Sunday trading had been a longstanding Labor
policy which it
had taken to the last election.
"This has been a matter of Labor policy ...