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Australians have discovered an unlikely pop-up store offering shoppers 'incredible' deals on clothing, homewares, food, and electronics.


The temporary Vinnies locations have been set up around Victoria to help shoppers get through the cost of living crisis ravaging the country.

Vinnies, or the St Vincent de Paul Society, is a charity that works to provide support and ***stance to people in need.

Most items are brand new stock donated by corporate partners including Christmas decorations.

Popular bargains include $10 large jars of Biscoff, $2 bags of Red Rock Deli chips, and discounted shoes from Boston Bros. 

Shoppers will find men's, women's, and children's clothing, shoes from top brands, and even electrical goods at the Vinnies pop-up locations. 

Many have purchased vacuums, air fryers, Adidas shoes, printers, and kitchen knives from previous pop-up shops. 

There is presently a location in Ascot Vale which is open until 3 November, and another in Boronia which will remain open until Christmas - or until stock runs out. 




Australians have discovered an unlikely pop-up store offering shoppers 'incredible' deals on clothing, homewares, food, and electronics











Popular bargains include $10 large jars of Biscoff, $2 bags of Red Rock Deli chips, and discounted shoes from Boston Bros

A new store will open in Richmond at Dimmey's on 7 November. 

The themed Richmond location will focus on goods for Christmas, summer, and the holiday season - but it will also include household items, Bric-à-brac, and electrical items.

Shoppers have shared their thoughts on the pop-up locations online.

'They have all the trending products - it's so awesome,' one said.

'I bought a hair dryer from Vinnies and I'm obsessed with it,' another wrote.

'I always have such good luck at Vinnies, I have to go,' a woman added.

For those interested in the finer things, shoppers have discovered a 'hidden gem' discount retailer where you can find designer buys from brands like Fendi, Dior, and Aje for affordable prices.

TK Maxx - which has stores in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia - is the answer to buying new clothes and shoes on a budget.











TK Maxx has stores in New South Wales , Victoria, Queensland and South Australia 

Beth Zazlan, from Queensland, recently found a gold mine of clothing lines from Australian brands like Camilla and Marc, Acler, Bec+Bridge, Shona Joy, Dion Lee, Zimmerman, and Acler.

'I was there for a pillow but I ended up grabbing some sparkly earrings from [American jewellery brand] Badgley Mischka,' Beth told FEMAIL.

TK Maxx sells old stock from previous seasons - and shoppers have described it as a 'clearance treasure hunt'.

Many have seen bags from Fendi, Dior, and Bottega Venetta on sale.

Others have spotted Gucci and Versace sunglasses, Hugo Boss accessories, and Christopher Esber dresses.


Beth said, 'I was truly blown away - so if you're looking for a bargain, head there.'

A David Jones employee revealed in a comment that discounted items from stores that aren't sold are shipped to TK Maxx.

Do Greens and crossbenchers who claim that transparency and integrity is at the heart of their reason for entering Parliament in the first place hear themselves?


In the past few days they have mounted self-serving arguments against proposed electoral reforms that the major parties look set to come together to support.

The reforms include caps for how much money wealthy individuals can donate, caps on the amount candidates can spend in individual electorates to prevent the equivalent of an arms race, and a $90million limit on what any party can spend at an election - actually less than the major parties currently spend.


The proposed new laws also include lower disclosure thresholds for donations, thus increasing the transparency of who makes political donations in the first place.

So the wealthy wont be able to hide behind anonymity while using their cash to influence election outcomes - and the extent to which they can use their wealth at all will be limited.

The bill will further improve transparency by also increasing the speed and frequency that disclosures of donations need to be made.

At present we have the absurd situation in which donations get made - but you only find out the details of who has given what to whom many months later, well after elections are won and lost.

In other words, what is broadly being proposed will result in much greater transparency and far less big money being injected into campaigning by the wealthy.




Teal Kylea Tink claimed the major parties were 'running scared' with the policy and warned the reform would 'not stop the rot' 











Greens senate leader Larissa Waters (left) fired a warning shot - saying if it serves only the major parties 'it's a rort, not reform'. Teal independent ACT senator David Po*** (right) said: 'What seems to be happening is a major-party stitch-up'

Anyone donating more than $1,000 to a political party, as opposed to $16,000 under the current rules, will need to disclose having done so. And how much they can donate will be capped.

Yet the Greens and Teals have quickly condemned the proposed new laws, labeling them a 'stitch-up', 'outrageous' and 'a rort, not a reform'. 

They have lost their collective minds after finding out that Labor's proposal just might secure the support of the opposition.

I had to double check who was criticising what exactly before even starting to write this column.

Because I had assumed - incorrectly - that these important transparency measures stamping out the influence of the wealthy must have been proposed by the virtue-signalling Greens or the corruption-fighting Teals, in a united crossbench effort to drag the major parties closer to accountability.


More fool me.

The bill, designed to clean up a rotten system, is being put forward by Labor and is opposed by a growing cabal of crossbenchers.

It makes you wonder what they have to hide. Put simply, the Greens and Teals doth protest too much on this issue.




Labor is thought to be trying to muscle out major political donors such as Clive Palmer





Another potential target of the laws is businessman and Teal funder Simon Holmes à Court





The Greens have taken m***ve donations in the past, contrary to their irregular calls to tighten donations rules (Greens leader Adam Bandt and Senator Mehreen Faruqi are pictured)

The major parties have long complained about the influence the likes of Simon Holmes à Court wields behind the scenes amongst the Teals. 

And we know the Greens have taken m***ve donations from the wealthy in the past, contrary to their irregular calls to tighten donations rules.

Now that tangible change has been proposed, these bastions of virtue are running a mile from reforms that will curtail dark art of political donations.

The Labor government isn't even seeking for these transparency rules to take effect immediately, by the way. It won't be some sort of quick-paced power play before the next election designed to catch the crossbench out.

They are aiming for implementation by 2026, giving everyone enough time to absorb and understand the changes before preparing for them.

Don't get me wrong, no deal has yet been done between Labor and the Coalition. I imagine the opposition want to go over the laws with a fine tooth comb.

As they should - because it certainly isn't beyond Labor to include hidden one-party advantages in the proposed design which would create loopholes only the unions are capable of taking advantage of, therefore disadvantaging the Coalition electorally in the years to come.


But short of such baked-in trickiness scuttling a deal to get these proposed laws implemented, the crossbench should offer their support, not cynical opposition, to what is being advocated for.

They might even be able to offer something worthwhile that could be incorporated in the package.

To not do so exposes their utter hypocrisy and blowhard false commentary about being in politics to 'clean things up'.