Supermarket shelves are empty in Far North Queensland while heavy rainfall continues making all three access roads impassible for trucks bringing supplies from the south.
The situation in Cairns has been so acute that Cairns residents are travelling to the Atherton Tablelands supermarkets in search of food.
A washed out bridge on the Bruce Highway at Rollingstone, north of Townsville, has been temporarily repaired by army engineers to allow emergency services and some trucks through to flood-ravaged Ingham.
A shortage of bread and naturally toilet paper, reminiscent of the Covid era, has hit the lower socio-economic groups which rely on bread as a staple.
There was a brief window yesterday when some trucks were able to get through along the Lynd Highway starting at Hughenden and heading north to the Tablelands and Cairns however that opportunity was closed by rising floodwaters.
A Coles spokesman said there were many trucks waiting at road closures on the Gregory Developmental Road and the Bruce Highway in a number of flooded locations.
“In the meantime, we have had pallets of food and essentials flown in on emergency flights organised by the Queensland Government – with another flight schedule for tomorrow with another 30 pallets of food, including some fresh produce,” the spokesman said.
“While we are continuing to closely monitor the situation in Far North Queensland, we are starting to get deliveries into areas like Cairns as roads reopen.
“We will continue to get more deliveries through when the roads are open so we can get food back on our shelves for our customers.
“We want to thank our customers for their ongoing patience, as it will take some time before our stores are back to normal.”
Our crooked governments arrange things so international outfits like Woolworths and Coles get inbetween farmers and the local population, this is evil, nasty and so very very wrong, only our LibLab politicians could have done such a thing.
Only unpatriotic morons shop at Woolies
Date: March 10, 2022 Author: Editor, cairnsnews18
Letter to the Editor
One person gets/spreads Disease, Bacteria or maybe disasters like floods, fire, Power outages, or train derailment, road closure and Woolworths or Coles New centralised processing facilities grind to a halt.Hundreds of supermarkets all over Australia could run out of meat, fresh produce and groceries.
*We need local butchers back in the supermarkets for quality fresh guaranteed supply of local Aussie meat.
*We need local Aussie produce back on the supermarket shelves.
*We need quality 100% Aussie made food.
Meat and produce grown in Far North Queensland is now transported to Woolworths centralised processing facilities then sent back to FNQ doing more than 3500km (It’s near rotten before we can buy it)
Any idiot can see Woolworths end game here.
A) Monopolize the industry.
B) Price control local small business.
C) Dissolve market enterprise.
C) Force contract control on suppliers.
D) Centralisation of meat and produce processing facilities and distribution.
In my opinion Woolworths & Coles BIG plan is exporting quality Australian grown meat and produce overseas and import substandard second or third grade meat and produce for Australian supermarket shelves.
(Pork is already over 70% imported from China, Europe and USA)
Aussie’s have been asked to help and support local Australian farmers for years and in return is this what happens?
It appears the health departments are asleep at the wheel. If you think Covid is bad wait until our food has disease and bacteria (Remember the frozen Nana’s berries made in China that Thousands of Aussie’s got Hepatitis in 2015 ! *In 2016 10,202 or 6.5% of Deaths in Australia had Hepatitis)
The government should be watching this closely but they are having to much fun spreading fear with this bloody Covid crap or climate change (ABC), always a diversion while big corporations are playing with Australian food supplies.
Did anyone notice that all the big Virtue signalling donors to our major political parties sush as Woolworths, Coles, Bunnings etc also government employees NEVER LOST A CENT DURING COVID, Some actually doubled or tripled profits and wages.
(Fair dinkum Aussie’s can smell a rat)
Regards
Jase FNQ
ℬ𝓉𝓌
*̴̢͙͔͛̚͘*̴͍͉̿̈́͜*̸̙͔̼̓͋͑ CAUSING A MASSIVE FLOODING WITH WEATHER WEAPON TECHNOLOGY *̴̢͙͔͛̚͘*̴͍͉̿̈́͜*̸̙͔̼̓͋͑
Let us see how a massive, 500-year flood can actually be created, in the exact spot scientists choose:
-̶>̶ https://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1199.cfm
[…] Go to Source on cairnsnews.org Follow altnews.org on Telegram Please donate now! 00 […]
[…] Source link […]
[…] Source link […]
[…] Source link […]
[…] Source link […]