A FAIR PRICE, NOT CHARITY
I write to you extremely angry and frustrated that handouts and subsidies are being touted as possible remedies to the present drought situation .
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They are not. They are only enablers.
Farmers do not want charity. They have too much self esteem.
What is missing in all this is the word PRICE and that is what dairy farmers (and all other primary producers ) want.
A fair price for their product and 24/7 effort. Presently we are getting the same price we did 25 years ago.
Right now hay and grain is sitting at $500 per tonne delivered whereas at the start of the year grain was $200 and hay $150 delivered .
This has meant a $20,000 increase per month for our 200-cow herd. We have no real choice. No feed, no milk. We could leave.
Cheap loans only add to debt and you need income to repay it.
The Government needs to mandate a minimum shelf price for milk at say $1.50.
People would pay that if they knew that 90 cents plus was going to the dairy farmer. There is a policy vacuum and farmers are being screwed by the supermarkets
Forget this business about World Markets as 80% 0f NSW milk is drinking milk.
If dairy farmers received a fair price for milk then they could look after themselves in difficult times and not seek handouts.
Mark Bouris in his piece “Drought’s don’t end on June 30 “ for the Sunday Telegraph was spot on regarding food biosecurity.
That small percentage of the population that feeds the nation need to be incentivised to keep on before it is too late.
The cost of this present drought will be felt for years after the drought breaking rains that will inevitably come at another cost .
A fair price is the answer not charity.
Peter Haertsch, Albion Park
It's the story of JetGo.
My question what happened to the 120 employees? Whom this airline employees while operating insolvent.
Employees need 16 weeks to get their minimum entitlements?
Who's responsible to license such a shameful operation ripping off regional councils.
Where are those responsible for this shameful operation? Are they in jail?
Did this story ended in bankruptcy?
What's left of the aircraft ? None?
Over 10,000 citizens ripped of their ticket money "to be chasing credit card issuers”.
Where did money go with JetGo?
Over $38 million disappeared and employees whom worked their butts off. They obviously worked for free.
The pilot was eating egg per day to pay for his training trip that he had to pay based on a promise from the JetGo that he is going to get it back over two years...
I have not seen any media coverage of where did the money disappeared?
Is it just a headline while lives destroyed as a result of this large scale fraud operation. Such a sham.
Sam Jordan, Queensland
ED’S REPLY: Thanks for the letter Sam. We have had extensive coverage of JetGo’s financial plight after breaking the story nationally in the first place.
Many of the questions you ask, we have indeed asked.
Unfortunately, many still don't have the answers on how this company was allowed to get into the situation it did.
