CORPORATIONS AND POLITICAL PARTIES CORRUPTION
“Mr Stevens, why won’t you release the Integrity Commissioner’s advice.”
“Mr Stevens, do you have something to hide?
“Shouldn’t the voters of Mermaid beach know about your involvement, Mr Stevens?”
“How much money do you expect to make from the cablecar development?”
“Is this the way you treat your electors, Mr Stevens?”
"hoodwink consumers into believing they can get professional pharmacist advice and products from a supermarket.”
"It's a hypocritical and frankly a public disservice that a
supermarket giant which profits so heavily from retailing tobacco and
alcohol products – which are the biggest preventable causes of ill
health and death – is claiming to be interested in health care.”
‘To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the Legislative
Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled. The privatisation
of NSW Lotteries in 2010 was accompanied by a five year Agency
Protection Period during which all existing arrangements with agents
were to be maintained. The Agency Protection Period will expire on 1
April 2015 at which point the protections for existing lotteries agents
will cease. This is likely to have long-lasting and devastating
consequences not only for the existing agencies, but also for the
broader local small business community. We the undersigned call upon the
NSW Government to indefinitely extend the Agency Protection Period and
enshrine the protective measure to support the viability of key
community small businesses.’
“From the April 1 next year, the government oversight of a huge
part of newsagents’ business will no longer be there and the operator
will be able to do whatever it wants.” “The newsagent system was created
to ensure low cost home delivery of newspapers. That entire system is
under threat.
“we will undertake other measures”
“We’re now relying on a political solution to a commercial problem.”
“We’re distressed by the state government’s lack of support for
our small business, especially when they are a government that says they
are for business……They’ve had five years to make some decisions on
this, and nothing has happened so far. I find it very distressing. The
tireless enthusiasm of newsagents has built Lotto up; we’ve built their
business up to where it is now. Lotto is gambling, and this will put it
into supermarkets and normalise it.”
"The ANF was shocked to see how Australia Post is looking for a
government hand out to help with their struggling retail outlets. We
have written to both Bruce Billson and Malcolm Turnbull reminding them
again that there is a network of retailers, larger than Australia Post
out in the Australian Retail landscape that already runs a large amount
of LPO and are willing to help take on more business. Let's look at
saving the government some money by using the largest independent retail
network in Australia."
In June 2013, Bob Katter introduced the Reducing Supermarket Dominance Bill 2013, it didn't get anywhere but had the support of Independent senators Andrew Wilkie and Nick Xenophon.“The Americans are screaming blue murder because Wal-Mart and
their competitor have now reached about 23 per cent market share. Here
we have two supermarkets with a market share of over 80 per cent, so if
they decide to cut down the amount of money they are going to pay
farmers and jack up the price to the consumers, they can, because there
is no competition”
“We paid a billion dollars in
tax last year; we paid a billion dollars in Australia, we paid a billion
dollars pretty much every year for the past seven or eight years. It’s
very transparent, we don’t have complicated tax structures. We pay tax
on profits not revenue. There’s been a lot of very strange reporting in
the press here about taxes on revenues, that’s not what people pay taxes
on, we pay them on profits as everyone in this rooms knows.”
“I honestly don’t remember what
the actual recorded profit is in Australia but no it wouldn’t be 20-30
per cent. We haven’t made a lot of money in Australia the last few years
because we don’t have a big copper business here. We have a big coal
business and the coal price has been very depressed.”
