OPINION | Newsagencies and milk bars are disappearing from our towns

Michelle Haines Thomas
Updated November 7 2019 - 3:59pm, first published September 21 2019 - 6:30am

Do you remember running up the street to buy some milk and the newspaper? You went, not surprisingly, to the milk bar for the milk and the newsagency for the newspaper. (The clue was in the name.) Every town and suburb had at least one of those two shops, even if it wasn't fancy enough to have a bakery, a butcher or a greengrocer.

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Michelle Haines Thomas

Michelle Haines Thomas

Deputy Editor Southern Tablelands and Highlands

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