The Greens are using farmers as allies of convenience to pursue their left-wing populist campaign against the supposed price and profit gouging of Coles and Woolworths.
The political pile-on to the big supermarket chains has forged a strange alliance as the Greens and the farm lobby accuse Coles and Woolworths of pushing primary production in Australia to a “crisis point”. This is rubbish.
Rising cost inflation has pushed up farm input prices for smaller fruit and vegetable growers, who understandably have sought to pass them on to fresh food retailers. Led by Anthony Albanese, politicians have blamed Coles and Woolies for higher supermarket prices, so they can avoid the heat of the cost-of-living squeeze.
The Greens are not complaining about the Bureau of Meteorology’s errant forecast of an El Nino event this summer, which farmers say has cost them millions of dollars.wrote in yesterday’s features pages, the big dry warning issued last September panicked farmers into a big destocking, which sent farm gate beef and lamb prices into free fall.
There is always plenty of ruin to go around. Previous policy meddling has lifted Australian dairy prices above the world price, giving New Zealand dairy farmers a chance to undercut their Aussie rivals. Low-end grape growers have been hit by the global red wine glut, China’s ban on Australian wine, and consumers’ shifting preferences for premium drops. But supermarkets have not pushed Australian farming to a crisis point.
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