Federal government frontbencher David Littleproud has had another one of his hissy fits, this time attacking Wesfarmers for closing and rebranding Target stores.
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He's a member of a party that was so proud to espouse free enterprise, hard work and private capital investment.
He said that now is the time for corporate Australia needs to show some licence.
How about Mr Littleproud fronts up to the next Wesfarmers AGM and request shareholders become a benevolent society?
He thinks Australia should vote with their wallets and not go near them. What, not go to a Bunnings to a Kmart?
Clearly, the man is delusional. Maybe the irate irrigators that threw a Littleproud effigy in to the Murray got it dead right.
And, on a more salient point, what has happened the once great Country Party that became the Nationals ?
SILLY TALK
The stupidity surrounding the dairy industry continues, particularly from Queensland and New South Wales, however commentary from elsewhere is catching up.
Leading business identity Jack Dahlsen has put forward a plan where all sales of liquid milk would be hit by a consumer levy of 40 cents to be distributed to all dairy farmers.
And the media is all over it. Before even doing the maths for any return that may eventuate, maybe at look at how it would be put in place should come first.
The plan would require legislation, not one stop federal intervention but the agreement of all states.
The proposal is stone dead at this point. The have-not states would jump at it, but Victoria and possibly Tasmania would give it the heave-ho.
The cost of administration would be horrific and the opportunity to rort would be ever present.
Lift the price by 40 cents could flow back to farmers at 60 cents in months of low production enticing dairy farmers into high cost out of season production.
Also, the resultant lift in pricing would be attractive to New Zealand companies to enter the Australian fresh milk market.
After all, we fly milk to China and elsewhere. In the past month, the price of home brand UHT milk was lifted in supermarkets from one $1 litre to $1.25 and not a bleat. That was a 25 per cent lift.
Then due to supply issues in some supermarkets, Devondale UHT products were the only one on offer at $1.45 a litre and it walked off the shelves.