Every morning, Jo Canham starts her day by quietly carrying her bookshop's A-frame sign to the middle of Port Fairy, a little seaside town in regional Victoria. "Big warehouses like Booktopia tend to make my skin crawl," she says with a laugh. The head of Australian Booksellers Association, Robbie Egan, says industry-wide sales dropped by just 2 per cent last …
NEW YORK — It’s summertime, and the bargains seem easy at a time when many consumer prices are high. The company said last year’s event resulted in the “single largest sales day” in the company’s history, with customers purchasing more than 375 million items. But the New York Times-owned product review website Wirecutter published an article this month saying most …
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Beyond the pits, power stations and politics, young people in coal towns have concerns and optimism about their future. "I love the town I live in and I know that it's sustained by the mining industry, so I'll forever be grateful for that." "I really want to get to the bottom of what's driving some sort of opposition to mining …
