[AusNOG] CA Data Retention costs letter to Ministers

[Jake Anderson]

On 19/03/15 12:43, Mark Newton wrote:
> 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
Just to put some numbers to this

http://www.onionsaustralia.org.au/about-onions-australia/index.htm
there are ~380 onion growers
They pay $4 per tonne to the org, (production cost of a tonne is ~$361)
gross value of production per annum $181M so they make 501385 tonnes of 
onions give or take
So they are netting $2M to run their industry body.

How much would you pay per user/some-other-measure for your industry body?

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