I'm happy to see grain Corp stay here as well.

As for qantas, it's just another nail in the coffin for local business, as we simply can no longer compete.

We had best get used to it I'm afraid, as we have literally cooked our goose.

The next two odd years will see massive closures of small businesses because they will either become non competitive, or Coles and Wollies will gobble them up.

It's an absolute shame.

Hidden from those who pelt rocks at the ALP here are some truths.
Labor opened our country to world trade.
We benefit daily as do farm producers from that single truth.
It may well be my fault, expecting balanced and thoughtful in put from a couple of posters.
Checking several news papers on line this morning adds to this subject.
Business is slightly concerned.
They, like all thoughtful posters understand we need over sea,s investment.
And to some degree are concerned at the message being sent.
I doubt a return to government/Socialism control is wanted, AWB still rings in my ears.
I remain convinced the act was the right one.
But too understand not every one agrees or that those with a different view are lessor for holding that view.
SOG has a fixation that Labor is always wrong here is a subject that opposition comes from every side not just SOG,s punching bag.

Belly>> SOG has a fixation that Labor is always wrong here is a subject that opposition comes from every side not just SOG,s punching bag.<<

China I have said to you many times before that I am a Social Democrat.
I believe in a representative democracy under the rule of law. I believe in a economy that actively opposes inequality, poverty, and oppression. I totally reject both a free market and a fully planned economy. In a nutshell I support the platforms of the ALP in the 1960’s....before they agreed to the Lima Declaration and the “sell off” of the rank and file members that inevitably came with that decision.

Belly, the Carbon Tax is a perfect example of why I asked who does Labor represents right now....It cost jobs, it achieved nothing in global terms and it sent our taxes to bureaucrats in Europe never to be seen by us again....the old Labor would have taken jobs in hand and food on tables over a cafe latte environmental crusade.....simple as that sport...common sense and economic preservation of the rank and file went from first priority to last over an ideological money scam.

Luddy, OUG, and Foxy all commented of their expectations that the Libs would sell us out....but in the end the Libs didn’t and Labor would have, that’s what I am punching. We all expect the Libs to sell us out....Howard sold off our gold reserves last stint in power.....We know what the Libs represent....what does Labor represent?

Butchers comments about Woolies and Coles is the result of consecutive left and right wing governments being ideologically captive to the free trade, free market, borderless globe strategy of the One World Government lobby. The Globalists policy on commerce is “if your big you survive, if your little don’t revive, and their policy platform was adopted by the Fist World with the signing of the Lima Declaration....and now they have attained such control that if you don't follow it they will economically sanction and credit starve you to death.

I personally would have supported the sale of Graincorp. There were valid concerns that this near monopoly could do deals that were not in the interests of Australian grain growers, but this could have been dealt with in the conditions.

Raw Mustard>>the Australian Leopard Party, sonofgloin?
The Australian Mafia Party more like it.
Fraud, pedophilia, racketeering and theft seems to be what they stand for these days.

With whatshername under investigation for fraud, Thompson for theft and fraud, Shorten under investigation for raping a 16 year old, Bryce and Rudd up to their necks in protecting a pedophile and all the rest complicit in it all.<<

RM don’t forget Obeid...Robber Baron Obeid and his band of Merry Ministers....a Sussex Street Labor man through and through.
I considered The Australian Mafia party...but rejected it because of any legal issues that might arise along ethnic and factual grounds.
There is a high level of competency in the Mafia’s day to day and upper management teams that the ALP can’t replicate. The Mafia’s financial competency and their ability to read the economy on a national and global scale again escapes the ALP.....As I said RM, the AMP rather than the ALP could get me sued by the Griffith boys for deformation ...lol

As usual, discussion has degenerated into a totally unedifying mudfight between political fanbois.

What is crystal clesr, though, is that no-one seems aware of what business GrainCorp actually is engaged in.

http://www.graincorp.com.au/

Can anyone here explain why this company would be able to operate less in the interests of Australia, if its shareholding changed?

This was a purely political decision by the Liberals to appease the National Party. It has nothing to do with the "national interest" at all, and has dudded the existing shareholders quite comprehensively, not to mention the company's management.