The Cairns Post

Duopoly is cashing in

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HOW much cash is being reaped by the Greens Party and the sucking Labor Party since the banning of the “one-use” plastic bags?

It is very apparent to me and a lot of others that most people have excess ”use again” plastic bags in their possession.

It is quite easy to forget your bags, previously purchased, when leaving one’s car or home to go shopping for groceries, just for a few things. We as regular shoppers are accumulati­ng bags like anything. What are we going to do with them once we reach 50 or so bags?

Please don’t tell me and a hundred others to get our act together and remember to take our bags shopping. We are only human and the larger shops, namely the big duopoly, are capitalisi­ng on our poor forgetful minds, who forget our bags every time we go shopping.

Most of us do not carry a large handbag to accommodat­e spare bags. I personally do not have a man bag.

This is just another rip-off by the major duopoly once again and the ridiculous Greens who are slowly killing our lifestyle. Patrick Hopper, Mt Sheridan 1804: Hobart, Tasmania, is founded. 1973: Australia introduces $50

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