AUSTRALIAN retailers may be doing it hard, but they are fighting back with a new industry group designed to lobby governments on a range of issues affecting the struggling sector.
The Australian Traders Group (ATG) will be launched in Melbourne on Friday with the purpose of lobbying governments on issues such as the reduction of the low value imports threshold for GST, the importation of counterfeit products, penalty rates and rent agreements.
Australian Retailers Association executive director Russell Zimmerman said the ATG was being formed after the success of the Fair Imports Alliance which ran the campaign on lowering the low value imports threshold.
Mr Zimmerman said the campaign led to the federal government asking the Productivity Commission to further investigate the matter and the ATG hopes that it will have the same influence on other matters.
"We want to raise these issues before both state and federal governments and seek to get good outcomes that will lower the costs for retailers," he said.
While an improvement in consumer confidence was essential to the revival of the sector, retailers were doing what they could to ensure the long term survival of the industry, he said.
"Retail currently employs about 10 per cent of the working population," he said.
"We are a very important part of the economy and we want to ensure the sustainability of the sector moving forward.
"What we're doing is trying to look at ways that we can reduce costs, plus to get an all-round better deal for retailers into the future."
The group, which will include members of the Australian Retail Association, the Australian Music Association, the Australian Sporting Goods Association, the Australian Booksellers Association and the Franchise Council of Australia, plans to meet every three months.
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