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It’s worse than a beetroot stain on your best white T-shirt: the classic Aussie burger is getting more expensive.

The beef pattie, tomato (or barbecue) sauce, bacon, bread and yes, even the beetroot have all risen in price over the last year, adding pressure on the local takeaway joint to pass those extra costs on to you.

Rabobank senior analyst Michael Harvey said there are factors – including worker shortages, and supply chain issues – that mean prices will stay higher for some time.

“Your burger’s going to be a lot more expensive,” he said.

 

So let’s break that burger down.

Beef mince, for burger patties, is one of the cheapest ways to buy beef. But even that has become more expensive as the price of beef rose 11.2 per cent in Melbourne and 12.4 per cent in Sydney.

 

Butcher Matthew Papandrea said beef prices have been creeping up over the last year or more.

The end of drought has meant producers have been keeping more cows to breed up their herds, meaning fewer cattle have been sold for meat. There has also been price pressure from staffing shortages, across abattoirs, transport and butcheries.

 

“To feed a family, you can’t buy premium cuts anymore,” he said.

Papandrea, from Joe Papandrea Quality Meats in Sydney’s Wetherill Park, said the industry will recover from the extreme COVID-related staff shortages but he’s not sure how much prices will fall.

“We’re a retail business, we’ve got a big rent bill, we have a big electricity bill because of all the machinery we use and the refrigeration.”

 

READ MORE:

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/here-s-how-inflation-is-super-sizing-the-price-of-your-burger-20220428-p5agrk.html

 

Prime Minister campaigns in Tasmania, announces manufacturing grantsBy Dana Daniel

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is in Tasmania this morning announcing a $4.5 million grant for a whisky distillery in the key marginal electorate of Lyons.

Morrison toured the Lark Distillery in Pontville alongside Liberal candidate Susie Bower, who is hoping to steal the seat from Labor incumbent Brian Mitchell.

 

READ MORE:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/election-2022-live-updates-anthony-albanese-returns-from-covid-isolation-morrison-says-nation-shouldn-t-risk-labor-government-one-nation-to-preference-labor-in-some-seats-20220428-p5agz0.html

 

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Reality has knocked on the door of the federal election campaign. The big, dangerous reality beyond the tiny homes occupied by the political campaigns and their tiny plans. But who’s answered the door?

First came China’s hard knock on Australia’s security. Then came the knock of raging inflation, which must lead to rising interest rates, the rising cost of living rampant.

 

Neither was a complete surprise. Both pose serious challenges to the country. How did the Coalition and Labor, the two parties of government, respond?

The twin themes of national security and the economy are heaven-sent for the Coalition, nominally. These are the Liberal Party’s two great brand strengths and Labor’s brand weaknesses. These are the themes that Scott Morrison wanted to campaign on.

 

Morrison and his ministers had rhetoric at the ready. Morrison said that a Chinese military base on Solomon Islands would be a “red line”. He returned to his theme that Labor was “soft on China”. He’s earlier accused Labor leader Anthony Albanese of being “on China’s side” and its deputy leader, Richard Marles, of being a “Manchurian candidate”.

 

Defence Minister Peter Dutton won attention for saying on Anzac Day that “the only way you can preserve peace is to prepare for war”.

But that was about it. They produced no policy response. Morrison’s “red line” might have been a marker of a new policy, but, when pressed, he had nothing to add.

Likewise with the news that inflation had surged at an exceptionally fast rate. There was rhetoric but no policy response. Sure, Morrison immediately pointed out that the government was giving some temporary relief for the rising cost of living. The government announced in the budget that it was halving petrol tax for six months, giving pensioners and other concession cardholders one-off cash payments of $250 each, and giving a one-off tax offset of $420 for low- and middle-income earners.

But this doesn’t constitute a policy response to rising prices. These measures are gimmicks. The cost of living will keep rising. These supposed offsets will all be gone and forgotten by September. Worse, the combined cost to the taxpayer is $8.6 billion. That goes straight onto the national debt. And adds to inflationary pressures in the economy. It’s junk policy. It actually aggravates the problem.

 

 

 

READ MORE:

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/coalition-served-its-dream-campaign-issues-and-fails-to-deliver-20220429-p5ah4w.html

 

 

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