Spare a thought for small business newsagents in Victoria and South Australia who are being forced to open on Christmas Day to deliver and retail Christmas Day editions of News Corporation product. This is despite News deciding to not publish in New South Wales on Christmas Day and despite some newsagents facing $55.00 an hour in wages for people to work on that day. Thanks to the News contracts newsagents are not in a position to pass on additional Christmas day costs whereas News can charge a holiday loading for advertising. Most newsagents will lose money for their Christmas day efforts.
Newsagents are happy that fairfax has decided to not publish on Christmas Day.
I live in a high rise complex on the Gold Coast and the newsagent who delivers papers to our building is most unreliable, and sometimes newspapers may not be delivered up to twice a week, despite some 7 years of delivery to me at the same address. Is there any recourse people such as me (and many others in the building) can take against the newsagent?