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#1 Posted : Tuesday, July 14, 2009 7:35:04 AM(UTC)
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Why buy Australian made and/ or owned?

85% of the products in the average Australian grocery trolley are made by foreign owned companies. This results in $100 million a day going outside Australia. By comparison, in Japan, 98% of goods in supermarkets are owned by Japanese organisations.

There are two key reasons to support Australian owned companies profits stay in Australia and jobs are created for Australians. If every Australian redirects $10 per week from foreign owned companies and foreign made products to Australian, Australia would save $4 billion per year and create 100,000 new jobs. (source: Ausbuy)

Foreign ownership of Australian companies has doubled in the past decade. The money leaving Australia to foreign owners reached $12 billion in 1999. (source: Sun Herald 17 September 2000).

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#2 Posted : Wednesday, July 15, 2009 1:16:55 PM(UTC)
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My Understanding of the situation that do to drought and climate Australia has to import a lot of foodstuffs.

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#3 Posted : Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:31:22 AM(UTC)
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My Understanding of the situation that do to drought and climate Australia has to import

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#4 Posted : Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:44:54 AM(UTC)
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Well no, we are quite capable of sustaining ourselves.

However, in this country we have 2 major players who due to volume have control over basically the whole food supply chain from grower to themselves as retailers. We now import much more food beca
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#5 Posted : Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:41:50 AM(UTC)
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I personally look at the label of all food I buy. If it's not made in Australia I don't buy it. I give products which are Australian Owned and Made preference. I refuse to eat imported products, especially those made in China. I went to buy some water cra
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#6 Posted : Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:08:18 AM(UTC)
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I have no problem with buying coconuts from Fiji, cranberries from USA, starfruit from Cook Islands, cashews from Vietnam. That is what they do. But us buying any citrus fruit, stonefruit, bananas, grapes, most vegetables from overseas is just ludicrous.
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#7 Posted : Thursday, July 16, 2009 10:11:32 AM(UTC)
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My missus is a department manager at a Large supermaket here in the good old Riverland. The other day a women asked her where the table grapes came from that they had there for sale. She was told the USA...She hit the roof and started raving on about buyi
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#8 Posted : Thursday, July 16, 2009 4:14:05 PM(UTC)
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I don't not buy foreign food because it's not made in Australia. I simply don't trust their quality control and hygiene particularly anything to do with water. Obviously there is no choice with some products though.

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#9 Posted : Friday, July 17, 2009 3:41:19 AM(UTC)
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I once stood in a Fish and Chip shop in Queanbeyan and noticed a rat scurry across the false ceiling. Not to out done a few months later in Canberra's Civic shopping area I purchased a good old Aussie pie for lunch, when I bit through the pastry case this
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#10 Posted : Friday, July 17, 2009 5:07:52 AM(UTC)
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Queanbeyan probably has less restaurants per food hygiene inspector than Canberra has so you should be better off there.

At least your maggots were cooked hopefully. Yuk!!

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#11 Posted : Friday, July 17, 2009 5:15:10 AM(UTC)
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There's nothing wrong with Australian food.

Oh, except for that sh1t that Dick Smith makes.

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#12 Posted : Sunday, July 19, 2009 6:22:12 PM(UTC)
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Stop whinging about Aussie food - I am living in Europe at the moment and besides enjoying castles and churches we have to mortgage the house to buy steak, the fruit and veg have been in cold storage for so long they fall apart after 2 days at home. Enjoy
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#13 Posted : Sunday, July 19, 2009 7:47:13 PM(UTC)
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I guess when we hear stories like this from abroad we don't realise how good we have it here in the grand old land of Oz.

We do take a lot for granted here but I believe the main problem is the large Supermarket chains screwing the farmers that hard on
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#14 Posted : Monday, August 17, 2009 9:21:17 AM(UTC)
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ONE thing i try to buy Australian as it is almost impossible to buy most other items all Australian is FOOD for many reasons some are... the farmers and keeping them as industry after we lost manufacturing many years ago and we have some regulations on po
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#15 Posted : Friday, August 28, 2009 8:23:49 AM(UTC)
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over $2 a litre?! i'd move back home asap
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#16 Posted : Friday, August 28, 2009 11:15:07 AM(UTC)
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I'm in Texas myself which is on the US Border with Mexico. We grow a lot of citrus here, but so do the Mexicans and also California and Florida. We have a big drought going on here in Central Texas. Oddly enough there is quite a buy American movement in t
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