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Australian tourism, from backpackers haven, to backpackers heaven.
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Ah Pelican, no wonder you joined the public service :)
If only running a business were that simple. You forget that
many businesses are price takers, they can't just increase prices
at will, to add extra costs.
Now take veggie growers, who are pushed by markets to have produce
at the market, bright and early Monday morning. Under our new
cushy labour laws, they will face huge weekend penalty rates.
So either the family will have to do it, or the figures simply
won't add up anymore. Many of these guys have one thing going for
them, as they have continued to grow their produce, city boundaries
have spread towards them, so their real estate value has gone up.
So alot of them will simply say stuff it, we'll forget growing
produce, let somebody else run at a loss, we'll flog the real estate
and retire.
You Pelican, will then be bleating on OLO, about Australia importing
produce from overseas, because growers won't grow it locally.
Well duh, the people making up these rules, have never or hardly
run a business between them. They simply haven't thought through
the ramifications of their well meant actions.
The law of unintended consequences shines brightly, but they will
learn the hard way.