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Monday March 21, 2011 Time to Look After Home - Priority Australia
As we write this, for example, the Canadians who own the former AWB are considering selling parts to Cargill (USA). Since AWB became foreign owned our farmers get less for their grain and smaller sales. Of course foreign owners...
Monday March 21, 2011 Still Waiting For Country of Origin on Our Labels
It is now 18 months since the Senate Inquiry into Truth in Labelling and we still have no resolution about mandatory “Country of Origin” on our labels. There was a glimmer of hope in May 2010 when the Blewitt Review included...
Monday March 21, 2011 Immigration
Periodically debate on this subject rises to the surface but rarely in a constructive way. Political point scoring and media moralising tends to take over. Australian public opinion is divided. On the one hand Australia has been...
Monday March 21, 2011 Consumerism
Modern theory is that the consumer must be provided with the highest possible service and the greatest protection at the lowest possible price. Legislation was been put into place to protect consumers from their own mistakes as...
Monday March 21, 2011 We are being milked dry.
Why is milk being used as a lost leader to create store traffic when deregulation and the takeover by foreign companies of the channels of distribution of 75% of our dairy industry had been allowed by the ACCC. It leaves our...
