How about some secondary and tertiary industry reform?

This means removal of all govt subsidies and regulations to these industries till they match the market exposure of the primary sector to the world market

This is free trade,both domestically and internationally.

At the moment we have a primary sector that has a free trade income, but not free trade for their expenses.

This discriminates, and should not be tolerated in Australia.

Apply this to the world market and you would see a quite different world.

Just a thought, “if food growers need to receive a regulated greater share of the economic pie by regulation” then how did the food supplies of the centuries past get their regulated benefits from?

Maybe over regulation and taxation of business has blown out the cost increase from farm gate to retail price.

Facts are, the farmer is receiving a smaller share of the retail food $.
If the food chain “productivity is improving, why do they need a greater share?
I have seen the blame for a bread price increase blamed on the farmer, due to a small farm gate price increase, that was several times the total paid to the wheat grower for his contribution to a loaf of bread.

Dear Bob Geldolf,

thanks for the sugar coated western guilt trip and thanks for reminding me that l can 'save a life if l buy your CD.' Nice one mate.

Thanks for the lesson in glib rhetoric, sanctamonious 'history' lessons, empty slogans like 'make poverty history', misguided and propoganda infused quasi and pop economics.

Oh yeah, and the chance to see and hear you barrell out your one-hit wonder 'Dont Like Mondays' in front of a couple hundred thousand. And for reminding me what a bunch of self righteous, ineffectual blowhards you geriatric rockers can be. And for reminding me what a poor state pop/rock music is in when the icons of the industry are about 25 yrs past it.

Well said, Trade 215.

It is amusing that the pop music industry, which has now become the unofficial advertising arm of the illegal drug industry, pretends to act out the role of the far seeing social crusaders.

Any trendy, left wing agenda will do. Especially one that suggests to young people that their parents and political leaders are all hypocrites. Filthy rich, jet stting pop stars, many with private jets, limos, share portfolios, bodyguards, supermodel girlfriends, and cocaine habits, scramble for the spotlight to save the forests, save the farmers, save Africa, and save the world.

Nelson Mandela is praised, Aboriginal causes are promoted and G11 summits condemned. And all this from pop stars who do not even know how to behave on a jet airliner, prance around on TV nearly naked, and who sing songs praising the pleasures of drug abuse, raping women and violent criminal behaviour.

Now the Wealthy and Influential will take Bob to their Boob and give him another honoury title.

It is like keeping your Enemy close so you can influence them with pretige and kick backs for the honour. The last stitch to seal his lips.

Let us face it, if Bob did not think about himself, he would not be human.

And when you sort through all of the murky waters you find a world able to feed everyone and food resources controlled by a sharemarket.