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PM sets terms on rent relief for smaller retailers

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Federal and state governments will enforce a mandatory code of practice between commercial landlords and their small and medium-sized tenants struggling to pay rent.

However, bigger tenants, such as Solomon Lew's Premier Investments which has declared a rent strike against its landlords, will be left to fight their own battles.

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