Scentre Group
Australia’s shopping centres shake off cost-of-living gloom
While many of us still struggle in the cost-of-living crisis, the big shopping centre landlords are optimistic they’re on the cusp of a retail recovery.
- by Simon Johanson
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Australia’s cities no longer ghost towns as workers, travellers and students return
City retailers are popping the champagne corks as workers return to the office, international tourists and students fly in and shoppers come back for weekend visits.
- by Carolyn Cummins
Westfield centres ramp up security as shoppers return
The retail landlord says it has “materially” increased security and is refreshing its tenants to lure back shoppers battling the cost-of-living crisis.
- by Carolyn Cummins
Investors looking at Goodman, Scentre results to steer decisions
Led by sector gorilla Goodman Group, the listed real estate investment trust sector has outperformed the overall market so far this year.
- by Tim Boreham
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Trade unions
CFMEU boss allegedly bragged of corrupt contract connections at $94b super fund
Police allege the high-ranking official boasted to corrupt building firms that he could secure them lucrative jobs on construction projects financed by superannuation giant Cbus.
- by Nick McKenzie, David Marin-Guzman and Ben Schneiders
Westfield owner beefs up security after Bondi Junction attack
Scentre Group has increased its security and is working with local police across its 42 Westfield shopping malls following the attack at its Bondi Junction centre.
- by Carolyn Cummins
Westfield removes floral tributes as Bondi retailers hope for business as usual
Tenants at Westfield Bondi Junction are preparing for the next phase of recovery, as messages of condolence left after the shocking attack two weeks ago are collected for victims’ families.
- by Carolyn Cummins
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Retail property
Vicinity ‘left exposed’ to security threats after senior management shake-up
One of Australia’s largest mall owners significantly downgraded its security management at 57 major shopping centres around the country in the month before the deadly Westfield Bondi Junction attack.
- by Simon Johanson
‘Worst nightmare of any mum’: Shoppers pay tribute to victims as Westfield returns to life
A week on from the massacre, messages of sorrow and floral tributes pour in for those killed and injured at Westfield Bondi Junction.
- by Andrew Taylor and Mary Ward
Dozens of bouquets and hundreds of moments of sorrow: Inside Westfield Bondi Junction
Silence befell Westfield Bondi Junction on Thursday as its doors opened to the public for the first time since Saturday’s horror knife attack that killed six and injured more than a dozen.
- by Anthony Segaert
‘Escape, Hide and Tell’: Westfield owner’s safety message days before Bondi violence
Scentre Group boss Elliot Rusanow has rejected claims that it took up to 25 minutes after the initial attack on Saturday for alarms to sound inside the Bondi Junction Westfield.
- by Simon Johanson and Carolyn Cummins
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