Readers respond to the supermarket price manipulation claims, the footy and Peter Dutton’s nuclear policy.
There we were thinking that inflation was being caused by high interest rates, power prices, increased taxes, rent increases, etc, when all the time it was the fault of Coles and Woolworths, according to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Every ScaM.
We see news headlines that infer supermarkets have been secretive with this practice, yet it has been done in plain sight!If we are really concerned about price-gouging, the focus should not be on Australian supermarkets. They operate on small profit margins few other businesses would consider viable. Less than $3 of every $100 spent is profit.
In other matches, players who were judged by the media to be best on the ground were not rewarded with votes. In particular, Marcus Bontempelli seemed to be overlooked. It is time for the AFL to make changes by having the votes cast by independent assessors, rewarding the best player, and to remove any contentious interpretation of the results, banning betting.Nick Daicos, with 38 votes, in any other year would have won a Brownlow Medal. However, Patrick Cripps got 45 votes, which makes 1.95 votes per match.
The presence of a Russian submarine in such waters off the coast of Cuba in 1962 brought the world the nearest we have come to World War III, and was prevented only by Russia withdrawing the submarine.
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