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Food categories

You can help completing Australia categories and labels for the Eco-Score

Labels

Help complete country-specific labels on Hunger Games: https://hunger.openfoodfacts.org/dashboard/australia

Industry labels

Public & Independent labels

Religious labels

Laws

Traffic light systems and others

Australia uses the Health Star Rating system, created by Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ).

Food Scandals

2018 - https://www.industry.gov.au/anti-dumping-commission/archive-cases-and-electronic-public-record-epr/488 - Imported tomatoes
2018 - https://www.smh.com.au/healthcare/nestle-wipes-4-5-health-star-rating-off-flagship-milo-product-20180301-p4z295.html - Nestle/Milo removes 4.5 Health Star Rating from packaging under "as prepared" rules.
2019 - https://australiandairyfarmers.com.au/mediareleasespost/lion-price-highlights-impacts-of-coles-1-per-litre-milk/ - Duopoly affecting dairy production
2020 - https://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/news-and-media-releases/articles/health-star-label-misleads-consumers-with-high-ratings-for-junk-food - Health Star rating misleading
2024 - https://youtu.be/MK-mNaEsmi0 - CEO walks out of interview when asked if his practices are anticompetitive
2024 - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-14/overhaul-of-health-star-ratings-labelling-and-marketing-of-food/104217784 - mandatory health star ratings are expected to be imposed on large food manufacturers

Consumer Organisations

Consumer_associations#Australia

https://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/food-labelling/understanding-claims/heart-foundation-tick

National food companies

Independent brands

List them here

Distributor brands

List them here

Help convince local producers to share their data

🏭 Food manufacturers and retailers Yes! To enrich the database, we can count on contributors... but also on food manufacturers! Indeed, as they are the source of the data, which often means that they are able to provide good quality data, and in bigger volumes than manual individual contributions.
Help convince local producers to share their data

Supermarket chains

Market Share of Australian supermarkets
Company	Market Share (%)	Revenue ($m)
Woolworths	38.2	50,353.30
Coles	29	38,146.20
Aldi	8.6	11,294.40
Metcash (wholesaler, also known as IGA)	6.7	8,810.60
Costco	3.5	4,611.80
Foodworks Supermarket	0.1	157.9
Amazon Australia	0.1	130.9

(Data from IBISWorld)

Woolworths and Coles are the two largest supermarkets in Australia, having a combined market share of more than 65% of the grocery market^[1]. Aldi (Aldi Süd) is a recent arrival (after coming to Oz in 2001), and has managed to acquire a large market share from the Woolworths/Coles duopoly which prior to Aldi arriving was 80% market share.

Costco has a 3.5% market share, despite only having 15 stores in Australia (Woolworths has more than 1,100). It arrived in Melbourne, Australia in 2009^[2].

Fun fact, Aldi owns Winn-Dixie in the US, who's stores look like a carbon copy of Coles stores... down to having similar "down, down" branding.

Geographic food origins databases

List them here

Local databases of interest

Help add the local egg traceability system: https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Food_Traceability_Codes/Eggs#Australia

Open Food Facts like websites and apps

Translations

Communities we can reach out to

Facebook groups (local food, slow food, non-GMOs, organic…)
Meetups
Industry events
Add your national coeliac/gluten non profit association
Add your national Vegan non profit association
Add your national Vegetarian non profit association
Add your national Lactose patients non profit association

Open Prices - Access to Information requests (GDPR requests)

As part of Project:Open-Prices, we need price points for products, loads of them.

If you have a fidelity card, you can ask your data, using the GDPR (if you're in a EU country, or using other laws if you're elsewhere). https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/GDPR_request#Australia

Local OFF contributor missions

Open Products Facts

Object_donation_websites#Australia

Past and present Australia issues on GitHub

Data Completion statistics

You can see Data Completion statistics for Australia at: https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/Dashboard/Australia
You can see the evolution of the number of products at: https://au.openfoodfacts.org/product-count

Follow Open Food Facts on social media

Open Food Facts has created presence on social media over the years in many languages. We now have the capacity to produce content in English and French, but we have a harder time translating and posting to all accounts. You can help by joining the marketing channel on Slack, and proposing to help for your language/country. Please get in touch with the permanent team before anything.
Follow Open Food Facts social media accounts for Australia: Public_Relations/Social_Media_accounts#Australia

Get in touch

Slack channel

#australia

[1] ttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-23/a-history-of-the-duopoly-coles-woolworths/103494070

[2] ttps://eprints.qut.edu.au/50049/

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 Woolworths and Coles are the two largest supermarkets in Australia, having a combined market share of more than 65% of the grocery market<ref>https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-23/a-history-of-the-duopoly-coles-woolworths/103494070</ref>. Aldi (Aldi Süd) is a recent arrival (after coming to Oz in 2001), and has managed to acquire a large market share from the Woolworths/Coles duopoly which prior to Aldi arriving was 80% market share.
+Costco has a 3.5% market share, despite only having 15 stores in Australia (Woolworths has more than 1,100). It arrived in Melbourne, Australia in 2009<ref>https://eprints.qut.edu.au/50049/</ref>.
 Fun fact, Aldi owns Winn-Dixie in the US, [https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-does-copy-transcend-flattery-become-something-else-mark-landini who's stores look like a carbon copy of Coles stores]... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjz14ERDY04 down to having similar "down, down" branding].