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ABB is obscene

June 1st, 2008 · No Comments

I know that grain isn’t the only commodity that ABB handles but a 33.6 million half year profit is obscene. Especially when your main core business is handling and marketing grain.
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It gets me grumpy when the middle men make ridiculous amounts at the farmers expense - Sure those farmers lucky enough to […]

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Tags: Farming · grain · politics · rant

Wasted Food

May 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Lots in the media currently about the price of food and family budget of working Australians. This is due to the release of the 1st Australian budget by the Rudd government.
I guess that our journalists needed to write about something because the budget release was pretty uneventful, all the info had been leaked to the […]

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Tags: Have a read · food · politics · rant

China, Tibet and the torch

April 11th, 2008 · No Comments

I understand why people are using the torch relay to voice their opinions over the events happening in Tibet. The relay is a current high profile event that is accessible to the general population and therefore people will use it to protest and show their anger with China, even-though this oppression has been happening for […]

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Tags: politics · rant