Yabby, you know what premium milk is, as discount milk is always home brand.

If the farmers are forced to sell most o ntheir premium at discounted prices, they go out of business.

This is the untold truth about discount milk. It's yet another scam.

that is why I wear thongs for quick calculations
sonofgloin,
and here I was thinking you were bedazzled by your boot laces.
Producer is dead-on with his assessment. That's why I am so much in favour of a flat Tax because a flat tax & only a flat tax can ever be considered a level playing field in economics. I believe it will happen in my time but those exploiting the "writing off" system now will never
admit that it actually would be the fairest of systems. It is the "write-off" tax system which allowed those whom Producer so aptly described in ineptocracy who will fight tooth & nail anything that's fair. The present system relies on deceit & only benefits a handful of greed mongers. Everyone pays the same rate, nothing can be more fair ! Same with income Tax bracketing. Ged rid of it ! Earn a Dollar & pay so much % Tax for every other Dollar !
If Business thinks it can't be done, prove it !

*Just saying Yabby that Australia is a bloody expensive place to live, and “that” exploitation goes into the pockets of two, not the many*

I don't think so, Sonofgloin. Australians spend just 10% of their income on food. They get a bargain really. Plenty left to throw billions down the pokies and overpay for Sydney houses. Now if you were Indonesian, you'd spend 44% on food. Profits from Coles and Woolies go to nearly all Australians, as nearly all have super funds and hundreds of thousands of mums and dads own shares direclty. They are called Grey Nomads.

Rehctub. farmers get exactly the same for their milk wether its sold as home brand or fancy label brand. Coles did not drop the amount paid to processors, when it dropped the price of milk. But only a quarter of all milk goes for drinking, a great deal of it is exported as milk powder or cheese. Extra costs, like the carbon tax have affected the dairy industry in particular. Don't blame Coles for that.

Well that's not my understanding Yabby, so I will try to find out more.

Yabby>> I don't think so, Sonofgloin. Australians spend just 10% of their income on food. They get a bargain really.<<

Yabbt that statement is absolute rubbish. If a pleb brings home $600 in the hand, they spend no more than $60 on food...for a week...rubbish.

http://wsm.wsu.edu/researcher/WSMaug11_billions.pdf

There you go, Sonofgloin, some interesting figures on that global comparison table. Perhaps in countries like Australia and America, food is too cheap, so people are too fat.