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EXCITING NEWS!!!
VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE BUSINESS IN PUMISTONE SMALL BUSINESS AWARDS!
• The nominations for small businesses have begun and closes on Friday 31st March, so vote now before you miss out.
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• The top ten businesses with the highest number of nominations in each category will be announced as Finalists.
• The voting round for Finalists will open on Tuesday 5th April and will close on Monday 17th April.
Here are some randomly selected businesses and their comments! Get in now and vote for businesses that you think deserves the award! Now is your chance to let our businesses know that they are a valued and appreciated.
Well you don’t need to make a Google search to begin to know that financial things are changing and not for the better but other than experiencing a visit to the supermarket how do we get to know more as we empty our wallets and purses at the checkout?
Now in that first paragraph there might just be a glimmer of what could be going on. Senior economists, public servant bureaucrats and elected government figures by and large don’t do supermarket shopping. You work at the coalface; they don’t. Now one of these ‘elites’ will likely scoff at such a comment saying that of course they have staff who gather all the information which they then use to macro manage the complete economy based on a assembled picture of how the country is facing current economic hurdles. But you do know the facts when standing in the aisle looking at heftily rising shelf prices; you feel the hit and the fear. You know that the bank is going to increase your mortgage payments as the interest rates rise, this will leave less money from your budget to pay for the food now in your trolley at its increased prices. No amount of written reports and statistics on a screen can impact in the same way.
If you remember back to the TV interview of Philip Lowe the governor of the Reserve Bank you might remember how he stated that he understood the difficulties faced by ordinary citizens as he announced another interest rate rise. He actually giggled as he made the statement whilst walking away from camera. Now I don’t think for a minute that the man is callous and was making light of the matter, I think that he just didn’t know and knew that he didn’t as he made the statement. The giggle was a show of embarrassment.
