National hardware retailer Bunnings Warehouse is taking the opportunity of a corporate reorganisation to establish a new chain of specialised outlets.
The company has announced a major revamp of its management structure which includes a cost-cutting move to eliminate a range of management positions. (below)
A spokesperson for Bunnings said as part of the revamp the company would also be rolling out a new chain of stores that would stock only Australian-made products.
“The new chain will be named Bunnings Aussie-Made and will be a little bit smaller than our existing warehouse-style outlets which means savings on building and land costs,” the spokesperson said.
“A prototype (main picture) has shown the new chain will need fewer staff, so that also means lower costs.”
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Chinese Government authorities have hit back at viral online stories circulating in the past few days that claimed a sun bear at the Hangzhou Zoo in Zhejiang Province might be a human dressed in a bear suit. (below)
In an apparently orchestrated program of retaliation, Beijing has spent the past few days targeting media markets around the world with similar claims.
In Australia, news outlets including The Bug have been receiving statements from the official Chinese Government news agency Xinhua suggesting that former deputy prime minister and National Party leader, Barnaby Joyce, was in fact a bear dressed in a human suit.
To support its claim, the agency also disseminated several videos of Mr Joyce’s appearances at news conferences and in federal parliament.
The myth-busting website Snopes urgently examined the Chinese Government’s claim and quickly published its verdict, giving the allegations an “unproven” rating meaning its investigation of the footage of Mr Joyce supplied by Xinhua had been inconclusive. (below)
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Advisers to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have defended his decision not to lend his vocal support to Australia’s so-far successful Women’s World Cup soccer team, the Matildas.
“He has every right, sorry… every Right to stay silent on the Matildas,” a spokesperson for Mr Dutton said.
“He has been asked to declare his support but continues to hold out and he will soon Right to … sorry, he’ll soon write to Football Australia to explain his stand.
“Basically he’ll be saying that he won’t budge until those woke, possibly pronoun-fluid, lefties who make up the Matildas drop their subliminal campaign to secure a second term for ‘teal’ MPs who stole seats rightly, I mean Rightly, belonging to the Liberal Party by changing the colour of their playing strips. (below)
“Mr Dutton knows that he might cop flak from woke, possibly pronoun-fluid, lefties who infest most of the Australian media, but he knows from his appearances on Sky News after dark that he has the vast majority of right-thinking, I mean Right-think Australians behind him.”
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