Everyone should be able to afford healthy food, without the profit-driven price tag.
Grocery prices are out of control. Since 2019, they've risen by 31%. As you pay more at the checkout, Coles and Woolworths make huge profits. This year, they pocketed a record $2.23 billion in just six months.
The Greens have a plan to take 30% off your grocery bill, by introducing publicly-owned supermarkets.
A basket of essential items, like milk, bread, eggs, meat, fruit and veggies, will be 30% cheaper at our public stores. In our plan for a nation-first trial, we’ll open 10 public stores across metro Melbourne and regional Victoria.
This would cut your grocery bills and save Victorians an average of $82.20 on essentials each week, or $4274.40 a year.
Coles and Woolworths don't just rip you off, they rip off Aussie farmers too. The Greens will back Aussie farmers by stocking quality local produce and giving farmers fair pay.
Our plan costs $350m over four years – that's less than what Labor spent on luxury upgrades at the Grand Prix. We'll pay for it by making the big banks and gambling industry pay their fair share of tax.
Public grocery stores, stocked with Aussie produce and priced affordably for everyone. It's a bold idea and it's possible. They have it in New York, and we can have it in Victoria too.
Food should be for people, not corporate profit.
We can have cheaper groceries with supermarkets that are run for and by the public – not greedy corporations.
Add your name to tell the Government: groceries should be affordable and we must stop supermarket price gouging.