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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19/03/15 12:43, Mark Newton wrote:<br>
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This morning if you were watching ABCnews24 Breakfast, you would
have seen the National Onion Growers Association getting
nation-wide TV coverage via an interview with their lobbyist in
Canberra.
They’re smaller businesses than virtually any small ISP. Their
entire industry is smaller than the small-ISP industry. They have
a national association with a lobbyist in Canberra, and a couple
of days ago they had the PM munching down on their product when he
was at one of their sites to promote it.
You guys don’t. - mark<br>
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Just to put some numbers to this<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.onionsaustralia.org.au/about-onions-australia/index.htm">http://www.onionsaustralia.org.au/about-onions-australia/index.htm</a><br>
there are ~380 onion growers<br>
They pay $4 per tonne to the org, (production cost of a tonne is
~$361)<br>
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gross value of production per annum $181M so they make 501385 tonnes
of onions give or take<br>
So they are netting $2M to run their industry body.<br>
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How much would you pay per user/some-other-measure for your industry
body?<br>
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