Late last month, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attended the opening of one of the largest and most highly automated grocery warehouses in Australia, at Redbank near Ipswich in the state of Queensland.
Albanese hailed the “extraordinary centre,” claiming it would create 320 “permanent jobs, secure jobs here in Queensland.” The reality is that the facility is part of a $1 billion investment in job-cutting technology by Coles, the second-largest supermarket chain in Australia. Anthony Albanese and Queensland Premier Annastacia Palasczuk at the opening of Coles’ Redbank warehouse [Photo: @AlboMP] Once Redbank and a second automated distribution centre (ADC), to be […]
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