[AusNOG] CA Data Retention costs letter to Ministers

[Nick Stallman]

Difference in scale. Onions don't have Telstras and TPG's.

They'd be paying the bulk of any industry fees under most measures.
And without them in the group there probably isn't much point.

On 19/03/15 12:59, Jake Anderson 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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