Alf hadn’t appreciated that players in the wine industry are struggling to make ends meet and have been hollering for state welfare.
Perhaps not all of them. But some of them.
And surprise, surprise. The Government has sprung a million bucks or so from taxpayers for them.
The money presumably has been diverted from something not so important in the grand scheme of things, such as adult education for poor people.
Instead the Government is backing a push for the billion-dollar wine export industry into the US market.
The aim is to build a super premium wine category.
Hmm. Let’s see if Alf understands this correctly.
We have a billion-dollar export industry.
But it needs taxpayers’ handouts for a sales push.
Astonishing.
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