Re-regulate dairy industry

TO see and listen to Matt Canavan, Warren Entsch and Joe Paronella together on the local TV news (28/11), suddenly showing concern for the plight of the dairy industry was more like a comedy script than anything else.

None of these three showed any concern when the industry was deregulated in late 1999.

Blaming the large supermarket players now is empty rubbish. If these three were serious, then fight to introduce a

Bill in parliament to re-regulate the dairy industry. They know that if the industry was still regulated the big supermarket players would not have a chance to set low milk prices and hence feed the dairy farmers a few crumbs for their product.

Dairying was a more-than-profitable industry in the decades leading up to the year 2000.

We are being engulfed by a lot of hollow talk, similar to the inquiry into the big four banks with little to show for it in the end. If the government was serious there, they would nationalise the big banks immediately.

One would have to believe in miracles to see the return of a vibrant dairy industry on the Tablelands.

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