02 January 2013
ABC Local | 2 January 2013
Jen Fleming talks to Melina Morrison, Director of the Australian Secretariat of the International Year of Cooperatives and Peter Knock, CEO of the Co-op Bookshop about the challenges and influence of co-ops today.
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