By Raquel Mustillo
TREASURER Rob Lucas has reignited debate over the state’s “archaic, confusing and shambolic” shop trading laws which restrict two of Millicent’s supermarkets from opening on Sundays and public holidays.
Despite the Millicent community voting twice to retain the town’s rare regulated shopping regime and the defeat of retail reforms in parliament in 2018, the State Government has announced plans for a statewide referendum on trading hour deregulation.
Millicent is the only regional town in South Australia where supermarkets larger than 400 square metres – Woolworths and Foster’s Foodland – are unable to open on Sundays and public holidays.
COLOURFUL DISPLAY: The colourful piece by Maxnie Fry highlights the importance of creativity when utilising textiles for art.
MILLICENT Gallery will welcome back textile artists Suzanne Gummow, Maxine Fry, Kerrie Head and Jenny Bates this weekend for their innovative exhibition The Tree of Us +1.
The exhibition, which opens 2pm Sunday, depicts versions of loved landscapes and seeks to remind observers of places where interest, beauty, and connection with nature can be found.
Council libraries and gallery manager Janice Nitschke encouraged visitors to view the creative exhibition.
“Suzanne Gummow, Maxine Fry and Jenny Bates’s textile art is synonymous with the Geltwood Festival and their works have been exhibited nationally,” Ms Nitschke said.