Aussie fruit prices are fair dinkum value
I’ve just been to the Gold Coast in Australia.
I cannot believe the price of fruit and vegetables there compared to here.
Here are a couple of examples: A tray of mango (15) for $20 — not $10 each here; a tray of blueberries, 12 small punnets for $15, not $6.49 each here in New Zealand; vegetables are way cheaper.
What the heck has happened to this country, besides petrol, the price of housing, etcetera?
No wonder families cannot survive and believe me next year will be worse.
Successive governments have sold us down the toilet with huge compliance and tax costs to small businesses and the average person.
On top of that our town has been turned into the place to be if you want a handout, not a hand-up.
Good luck to the next generation. (Abridged)
Perry Bell
Rotorua
relieve these price pressures. Repeatedly Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Minister of Finance Grant Robertson have stated that the Government has increased the minimum wage, introduced free lunches into more schools, increased family tax credits, provided free
public transport, increased benefits, supported the energy payment and reduced fuel taxes as a way of saying that they are listening to Kiwi’s financial pressures.
But the problem now, of course, is that these measures have already been introduced and people have already benefited from these various government-provided payments along with, if in employment, wage increases etc but massive financial pressures continue to be applied, so what next?
For people on benefits, the energy payment does not recommence until May 2023 and there is also a likelihood that the 25 cents per litre fuel [subsidy] may be reinstated in January 2023.
So how are Kiwis expected to balance their future budgets in these inflationary times and what else can the Government do to assist the people, it represents, without borrowing even more money?
Mike Baker
Tauranga