Farmers ask for a 30-cent-per-litre price rise for milk as fuel and fertiliser prices surge.

Regional areas will be hit hardest by the price rises, as more fuel is required to transport goods further distances from metropolitan distribution centres.

“The cost of fuel and fertiliser is flowing through the supply chain, and we’re going to see in metro areas probably a 2 or 3 per cent increase across the board,” market analyst and director of Episode 3, Matt Dalgleish, said.

"We’re seeing record prices for diesel, and that’s what most of Australia’s freight runs on.

“In regional areas it could get higher, maybe 10 per cent, depending on how remote the area is and how stretched the supply chain is.”

  • eureka@aussie.zoneEnglish
    4·
    4 months ago

    I have not read about WMD. I’ll do that now I guess

    Sorry for assuming and for my attitude, I guess I’m in a bit of a media bubble and assumed it was still well-known worldwide. It’s a large reason why the Iraq War faced huge counterprotests in my country. Long story short, a main part of the pretense for the Iraq War was the US saying that Iraq was building “Weapons of Mass Destruction”. Before the invasion, the CIA told the US government that the gov’s intel was not reliable, and the UN couldn’t find any evidence of them since the disarmament in the 90s. [wikipedia]

    The reason I mention that, is because this isn’t the first time the US has used this pretense of weapons building to justify an invasion, and combined with the fact that Netanyahu has been claiming repeatedly for decades that Iran is close to completing them, the claim doesn’t sound trustworthy.

    • vas@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      16 days ago

      Thanks for the response. In the end, I’ve decided that the topic is out of limits for me to understand, meaning I’m not willing to invest sufficient time to have confidence in either of the opinions (that Iran can reach nuclear capability in X years, or that it cannot).

      I’ll instead keep a smaller set of things that I believe in:

      • Netanyahu is in any case a wanted criminal. That much is clear to (almost) everyone anyway.
      • It does not help that Iran claims to be building nuclear weapons or does not claim that it doesn’t. It may be in their self-interest to say so, especially considering that they’re up against the US. But in any case it does not help.
      • Israel-led war needs to be stopped. Terrorism and the risks of terrorism in the future have to be dealth with, but the actions of the last years make the problem worse, not better.

      To me these three points sound like something easy enough for most people to agree, and also at the same time true (reflects the reality).