Northern Minerals, a Perth-based heavy rare earths developer, faces potential nationalisation by the Australian government.  Resources Minister Madeleine King confirmed this option on October 14, 2026, after China-linked investors defied federal orders to divest their shares.

The precedent has been set and the far right have been silent about nationalising.



Australia imports the vast majority of its fertiliser, with domestic production declining sharply to just 15% of total consumption in 2024.  The country relies heavily on global supply chains, with 62% to 69% of its urea and nitrogen fertiliser imports originating from the Middle East (specifically Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar).

Those imports are now gone.

UN official warns of looming food crisis as Hormuz fertiliser plan stalls

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/14/un-official-warns-of-looming-food-cris...


It's time to focus our agriculture sector so mass starvation doesn't engulf Australians.

We all know capitalism is about creating shortages so to maximise profits.

This is not the time to grow cotton or grow as much meat and sugar cane, while ignoring the food basics of life. The small amount of fertiliser we have must be directed only to feeding this country. Once that is achieved, then the excess is stored or exported.

Comrades, this can only be achieved through nationalising our agriculture sector.

Cuba.

The United States has pursued a multi-decade strategy to overthrow the Cuban government, beginning with the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion and continuing through decades of covert operations, economic sanctions, and, more recently, renewed military pressure.

Still it survives.

How long would a capitalist economy last, being picked on in a similar way. 2 hours maybe ?

Woo up

Think about this.

Do you really want to give the politicians of Australia more control?

Let alone over our farmers?

When was the last time you walked into a supermarket and there was nothing there to buy?

For that matter when have you ever gone hungry for lack of food availability?

Stop and have a long look at the endless amount of completely stuffed up government intervention that has failed completely and over run there budgets by billions.

Look at the "closing the cap" government policy.

Done nothing costs billions.

Don't reinvent the wheel that is working and dinner on your table because a government agency will leave you starving and paying more.

Really can't take anything seriously from an opening poster with a name title as it is.

Cretins like you should be banned from this forum

Rather than time travel nearly a century back in time  ...

295.3 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2024, with projections indicating 266 million remained in crisis levels of hunger by 2025. This represents a sixth consecutive annual increase, driven primarily by conflict, economic shocks, and climate extremes.

This under a global capitalist economic model.

Now with Netanyahu/Trump purposely forcing shortages in oil and it's derivatives such as fertilisers, to maximise profits, billions of people face starvation. in the years ahead.

Ai_Killed_Humanity wants golodomor for Australia.

Removing payroll tax for IGA and Aldi would lower their labor costs, but it would have a limited impact on closing the price gap with the Coles and Woolworths duopoly due to market share and structural differences.

Coles and Woolworths use their massive volume to negotiate lower wholesale prices from farmers and manufacturers, a leverage smaller competitors and independent IGA stores cannot easily match.

ACCC noted that the problem is structural—concentrated market power gives the big two little incentive to compete aggressively on price, regardless of minor tax adjustments on rivals. Other proposals—such as mandatory pricing transparency, planning/zoning reforms, or divestiture powers—target market concentration more directly than payroll tax exemptions.


The better option is ...

Greens think tank proposes publicly owned supermarkets to challenge Coles-Woolworths 'duopoly'

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-06/green-institute-proposal-public-supermark...