Flooded towns exempt from trading laws

Retail public holiday trading laws have been relaxed in flood-ravaged Bundaberg and
Rockhampton in central Queensland.
Queensland attorney general Cameron Dick said a direction has been made under
disaster management laws to permit retail trading for groceries and other essential
items on New Year's Day and the national public holiday on Monday.
"Retailers selling food, groceries and other essential items in Bundaberg and
Rockhampton will be able to open for normal trading hours, where they have supplies
and are able to do so, on those days that trading would be restricted or where
retail stores would otherwise be closed," he said in a statement.
"Cessation of extraordinary trading hours in Rockhampton and Bundaberg will occur at
the earliest possible time, once the threat of flooding has passed."