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Letters to the editor December 4 2019

December 4 2019 - 1:00am
Letters | Black day when we import without thought
Letters | Black day when we import without thought

I THINK it is repulsive that so many Australian companies yesterday used the idea of Black Friday for promotion of goods and services. This is a USA convention, not an Australian one. The term Black Friday in Australia is commemorative of a day in 1939 when huge bushfires ravaged Victoria and 71 people lost their lives.

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