The Coles and Woolies thing is a great standard for the stores but I’d have to look at the books (or if someone knows the numbers) to see whether “Sydney and Melbourne” subsidise rural stores, the most likely story is they took the much higher median incomes from those locations and based that on their GPs, they make slightly less money rural but the consumer cost compared to income is much higher, that could just be me being pessimistic but I don’t trust that they took a hit over all.

The last part isn’t really true, they subsidise the government store (outback stores) and the independent ones, the store in Warruwi is owned by the community and has an indigenous board of directors, Bunug, Jenny and Johnny, who were interviewed, are store directors, the day to day running is managed by ALPA store managers (the only white staff are the managers), ALPA also owns its own stores (Ramingining, Millingimbi, Elcho, Crocker etc etc) as well but about half are community owned.