[AusNOG] CA Data Retention costs letter to Ministers

[Ben Cooper]

$2 a user?

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Jake Anderson <yahoo at vapourforge.com>
wrote:

>  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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