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Citizens Electoral Council of Australia

Media Release  8th of March 2011

Craig Isherwood‚ National Secretary
PO Box 376‚ COBURG‚ VIC 3058
Phone: 03 9354 0544 Fax: 03 9354 0166
Email: cec@cecaust.com.au
Website: http://cec.cecaust.com.au
 

Isherwood: Declare parity prices for farmers and knock Coles and Woolies out

“Coles and Woolies predatory price fight to establish so called ‘market share’, will kill Australians and continue to kill our food producers,” declared CEC leader Craig Isherwood today.

“The actions of Coles and Woolies amount to an attack against the national food security of our nation, so our government has a choice: either nationalise these two monopolistic grocery chains, and break them up, or introduce parity pricing for our food producers with import bans on food supplies that can be sourced locally, now! I would do both, immediately.”

Citing the example of Britain, Mr Isherwood said, “British supermarkets in recent years have driven thousands of dairy farmers out of business, and milk imports from the Netherlands and Ireland have skyrocketed. In Western Australia, after years of deregulation and smashing the local dairy industry they are now receiving container loads of powdered milk from China! In the last year alone, 70,000 of our dairy cows have been exported to China. Whilst China needs help with its internal food-production, this is nuts.

“It is a scandal that Coles has imported British executives to orchestrate the destruction of our agricultural producers. Their visas should be revoked forthwith and they should be deported as a menace to Australia’s national interest.”

“It is clear,” he continued “that the intention of Coles and Woolies’ current price war is to source the cheapest product from anywhere in the world, to maximise shareholder profits, and in so doing, join the movement to promote genocidal policies to reduce the world’s population. Make no mistake, once the local production of wheat, beef, milk products, eggs, and other food staples have been completely destroyed, then these predatory supermarket chains will raise prices to suit themselves. They don’t give a hell about the welfare of ordinary Australians—and all Australians, both consumers and producers, will suffer. They already are with record numbers of farmers committing suicide!”

Mr Isherwood called for immediate action: “The government must act in the interest of the general welfare of the Australian people, and deal with the food cartel in the same way they should deal with that other bankrupt predatory cartel—the Australian banking system: control, regulate, and if they do not behave—nationalise them in the interests of all Australians! But first, and most urgently, let’s protect our food producers now and declare parity pricing immediately.”

He called on the other political figures already decrying this insanity—Bob Katter, John Cobb, and Barnaby Joyce: “Do something effective; use the power of your offices to call to bring in parity pricing now to protect our food producers from the predators. We won’t get a second chance”, he concluded.

Click here to read “Macquarie Bank, the ACCC, and the British plot to ruin dairy farmers”.

Read about the history of Australia’s fight against British free trade looting; click here for a free copy of the Oct/Nov 2009 New Citizen, “Defeat the British Empire of Monetarism!”

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