Pesutto isn’t even really a moderate either, he was a card carrying member of the IPA after all. But he is a lot moderate than a fair portion of the Liberal members.
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All the time and effort Morrison spent with Gladys Lui, the MP for Chisholm, thinking he was on a winner with the female and ethnic voter. She lost her seat, while those so-called inner city elites ( those other female voters) , took over safe blue ribbon seats in Sydney and Melbourne as Teals. It’s how Albanese achieved majority government.
Are you serious, or has finally all that chocolate warped your brain.
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You really know better than that. I bet you for years sat in meeting coming up with ways to cut costs through clever packaging that deceived your customer. The chocolates you pushed shrunk in size every year, and while I realise the cost pressures on all food manufacturers, I wish they would all be more honest.
What comes first, chicken or egg ? Manufacturers increase prices to make more profit, that drives to higher inflation, which affect manufacturers costs and profit, so it all becomes cyclic.
I don’t have any say in it, whatever, I live in a seat where I am forced to go along for the ride.
I believe that incompetent governments should be thrown out. Its not about allegiance to the party that matches your ideology, especially when the ideologies of the 2 main Australian parties are so centrist.
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In France , a voluntary code of conduct was initiated with the big supermarkets on basic food items, that their retail price increases would match costs of production/the price to get the product to retail.
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Have you considered how costs of production (inflation) have impacted manufacturers the last two years? Consider wage growth, energy prices growth, raw materials cost growth. Its a cyclical environment but the cost pressures on food manufacturers the last 18-24 months has increased significantly and is feeding into the supermarket pricing situation.
Maybe it would be useful to get some empirical data on costs of production and profits. . Some already exists on wages and cost of living, when even wage increases staggered over five or so years have been met with outrage by industry organisations.
As to those producing the basic ingredients, like dairy farmers and processors, they have complained for years about being screwed by the big supermarkets in their wholesale purchasing practices. They welcome the ACCC investigation.
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When the price of food to consumers can be the difference between life or death, as in India or Indonesia, the government steps in to regulate prices. This can be done by setting a maximum wholesale or retail price for a basic item ( onions used to be the indicator in India) together with export restrictions and lowering import tariffs on the same product, to force competition in the market by additional supply.
Then there are other governments who maintain a price to their farmers by forced exportation of surplus product, sometimes with transport subsidies, bringing down world commodity prices and affecting the incomes of farmers in Australia and elsewhere.
lol, what’s that?
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We don’t need a government in Australia setting food prices, wholesale or retail. That won’t work in practical sense.
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But we do have a Fair Work Commission, which , under the Fair Work Act, annually reviews the minimum wage for a 38 hour five day week.
We used to have fluctuating import tariffs to support the basic wage. Whitlam executed the divorce with the 20% tariff cut, with Keating later reducing applied tariffs to a maximum 5% with exceptions for TCF and autos. Removal of those exceptions spelt the end of those manufacturing industries in Australia, with the trade off of lower prices to consumers.
To add, in the land of free market capitalism, the US imposes quotas or restrictive tariffs on a range of imported products, together with the Other Farm Bill for the South ( domestic food aid, special Buy America provisions). Which goes to explain why US consumers are forced to rely on HFCS sweeteners in their drinks, when cane sugar delivers a superior product. When US consumers pay more for products based on whey in the production process.
What exactly is “incompetent” about the current Victorian government ?
Liberal flogs hate them.
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Vic Liberals should live stream their party meetings for ■■■■■ and giggles
Or could be a good reality TV concept.
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Incompetence is a relative term. Compared to the previous State Liberal Government, Labor is supremely competent. And if you actually explore the BS stories on infrastructure builds, you find they are not so bad at all, again compared to other States.
Perhaps the big issue is the they have taken on too much to build in a short time, so promises may not be kept, and that is where competency is a valid concern.
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Not quite true, if they were Palmer or PHON voters the preferences from those parties at the 2022 election were not going 100% back to the LNP. Some of those previously diseffected voters may have put the LNP last.
Probably more to do with the fact they are holding up signs of terrorist organisations, photos of terrorist leaders, making others feel unsafe, and celebrating a mass terrorist killing.
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I recall way back at the Vietnam War priests in Melbourne where there were about 200000 people in Bourke Street, that North Vietnam flags, pictures of Uncle Ho and other such stuff were prominent. I also remember when I was a small child attending fund raisers in South Melbourne for the IRA.
We are so politically correct in the 21st century.
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