Please explain ‘sustainable population’? says NFF
WHAT exactly is a sustainable Australia? Yesterday Prime Minister Julia Gillard picked up on the National Farmers’ Federations (NFF’s) 2010 Federal Election Policy Platform, specifically the peak farm body’s population issues. Ms Gillard’s speech to the Eidos Institute noted: “The direction I choose for Australia is the path of sustainability, taking the pressure off regions […]
New wave consumers & their great expectations
LIKE Billy Connolly’s famous stand-up bit, tomorrow’s consumers will want ‘more of this, less of that, most of the other and a shipload more of that’. But they will also be more discerning. Emerging trends see consumers increasingly invested in the production values of the things they buy. An independent survey by NetBalance, released at […]