in last month’s newsletter we mentioned we had a seat for live consultation with former Labor frontbencher and PhD economist Dr Craig Emerson at the Food and Grocery Code review. ACGC developed a submission on behalf of growers – remembering that it’s not only the growers that are being “got at” by supermarkets; but because they are proxies for the supermarkets, processors are bring “got at” as well.
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ACGC Comments on National Competition Policy Principles and Plan
You might recall the “old” National Competition Policy and Principles. That’s the highy theoretical, economist-driven, philosophical document that resulted in removal of the Meat Poultry growers’ Countervailing power legislation in all states, resulting in grower not even having a full ability to use delegates to negotiate thier comtacts for them. Even the ACCC law changes […]
read moreACGC Comments on Proposed New/Updated National Water Plan
The old National Water Plan, published in the early 2000’s, brought us (eventually) the highly contested Murray Darling Basin Plan State goverments getting involved in your dam storages a trading scheme for water that works poorly during drought….. and so on. NOW the government wants to impose a NEW National Water Plan. It appears that […]
read moreRadio Interviews on Flow FM, South Australia
Every week, ACGC features on Flow FM 99.5MHZ Country Market Friday. Click play to hear some of the interviews here: 18th Sept 2024: Environmental issues affecting the meat poultry industry. 6th Sept 2024: Industry Sustainability Plan 28th Aug 2024: HPAI and Emergency Disease , planning for outbreaks. 24th Aug 2024: Launch […]
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