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“Woollies Has Us by the Proverbials” Says Joyce | BTalk Australia

October 20th, 2008 @ 11:30 am

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Categories: BTalk Australia, Podcasts

Tags: Australian Competition And Consumer Commission, Food & Beverage, Regulations, Manufacturing, Retailing, Government, Podcasts, Barnaby Joyce, Phil Dobbie

(16min 12) Despite the dominant share held by Woolworth and Coles the recent ACCC Inquiry concluded that the grocery market was “workably competitive”. It’s a finding that has angered Queensland Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce, who talks to Phil Dobbie on today’s BTalk Australia.

In a lively discussion Barnaby Joyce not only queries the findings of the ACCC Inquiry, he also questions the independence of the national regulator.

Tell us what you think in the Talkback section at the bottom of this post.

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Phil Dobbie is a broadcaster and businessman with more than 15 years commercial experience across the telecommunications, Internet, tourism, advertising and radio industries. He has held senior marketing and management roles in OzEmail, Telstra and the British Tourist Authority and has been involved in a number of Internet start-ups.
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    505Ash10/21/08 Report as spam
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    RE: "Woollies Has Us by the Proverbials" Says Joyce | BTalk Australia

    Blind Freddie can see the uncompetitive nature of the Australian retailing industry. Now Coles and Woolworths are adopting the Aldi model it is conceivable that in the near future consumers will have little choice in terms of product, lack of differentiation and once again the Australian manufacturing sector will be under threat from generic products sourced from who knows where. We have high grocery prices due to the retailing practices of the large few and clear profiteering. Pretty soon we will not be able to feed ourselves because food will be sourced almost exclusively from overseas. Government should break up Woolworths and Coles.

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    RajenK10/22/08 Report as spam
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    Big Business has us by th eproverbials in Australia

    Just like Qantas and Telstra and the oil companies have been doing all along, we are at the mercy of these big monoliths of inefficiency-okay not so inefficient is Qantas, but nevertheless it is a monopoly no matter how the ACCC try to cloud it-and all of them have exploited the Australian public for decades and will continue to do so until somebody realises this. Until then, here's hoping Virgin and Extel and iiNet stay strong. They are the only true competition here.

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