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Dairy Farmers Demand Tougher Rules to Stop Supermarket Bullying

Queensland’s dairy industry is in crisis, and farmers say stronger laws are needed to stop supermarket tactics that drive down milk prices unfairly. Once a dairy powerhouse, Queensland must import about half its fresh milk supply. Dairy farmers are leaving the industry at twice the national rate. At a recent inquiry into supermarket pricing, dairy […]

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ACCC Urged to Block Coles’ Milk Factory Buy Amid Competition Worries

Dairy farmers’ representatives are urging the competition regulator to prevent supermarket behemoth Coles from purchasing two milk processing plants. In April 2023, Saputo, a milk processor, disclosed the sale of its Laverton factory in Victoria and its Erskine Park facility in New South Wales to Coles for a sum of $105 million. This sale is

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