All of which make obscene profits for some Australian billionaires and the rest of the profits are exported overseas.
Robert Le Page,
That money is created by employing many people. Where do the obscene amounts of money to pay the Academics & bureaucrats come from ?

How do you propose manufacturing, farming, almost anything else by way of industry can compete with that and stay competitive?
rehctub,
why has there to be such a competition ? Just you wait & see how many families will break up because of Fifo & it's money & who'll be paying the price for all thoes dysfunctional people when all goes ar$e up ? Our society will pay AGAIN !

Let Coca Cola pay

ChrisGaff1000 so they do!
Lets be honest say you owned butches once butcher shops, he told us he had at least two.
One is make a loss constantly and in the hundreds of millions.
Do you take the profits from one to prop up the other?
Will share holders in say Coke be happy to see losses of SPC propped up by what would be their loss.
Why not just drop the high income baby bonus and fund this community?
What is behind Abbott,s Socialism for the well off is he trying to breed the next generation of Liberals?
Silly yes, but still not as silly as drowning jobs and manufacturing while blessing high income earners.

I say let the unions pay, they kept pushing the costs up & up.

warmair - Are you for real 1) SPC is owned by Coca Cola why should taxpayers subsidize there profits?

If a business has 2 or more shops and 1 is not making a lot of profit but the other one is making lots of profit does that give them the right to get bailed out by the taxpayer NO!

Yep, why should we give Coca Cola(tm) 25 million to support a failing venture? If it was worth it, I'm sure they could pull some of that 550 million they made last year to prop up SPC!

Unless you've been living under a rock, most people around the world are sick to death of .gov propping up big business.

In a normal world the failure of SPC would lead to a number of small mom and pop start ups taking over thereby distributing the wealth more evenly. Isn't that what everyone wants, a more even distribution of the wealth and opportunity?