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      <title>Ms Anonymous [Signature #226]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23850100?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Campbelltown, New south wales, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2020 11:31:07 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Anonymous [Signature #225]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2014 07:32:41 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Fatima Issa [Signature #224]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Fatima Issa, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 9 Jun 2014 03:36:36 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Elisa Lovett [Signature #223]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Elisa Lovett, NSW, Australia<p>The high cost of registration is prohibitive for the average home craft soap maker who may not even sell one bar of soap without registration with NICNAS.  For hobbyists, they may not even cover their costs for supplies, let alone registration or make a profit on their soap sales.  This fee discriminates against starting a small business in favour of large business with high turn over.  I am all for safe production of cosmetic goods, but this fee does not do anything for the soap maker or for the consumer and prohibits small .  It is purely government revenue.  Please reduce the fee significantly for small crafters.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Aug 2013 07:30:18 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>msn Anonymous [Signature #222]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, wendouree, VIC, Australia<p>Fee should be reduced or able to pay 6 monthly/pro rata, ridiculous as most speakers certainly don&#039;t have a huge turnover, and by the time you take into account insurance, market stall fees, actual cost of ingredients etc, there is very little profit to be had. What do you get for paying nicnas except removing the risk of being fined?</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 9 Apr 2013 04:28:27 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Peter Levarre-Waters [Signature #221]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Peter Levarre-Waters, St Clair, NSW, Australia<p>make allowances for families to try and make a hand made product and stop supporting the big multi national companies</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 9 Mar 2013 02:04:27 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ms Anonymous [Signature #220]</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:35:04 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Melani Sheehan [Signature #219]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Melani Sheehan, Australia<p>I&#039;m a stay at home mum who would like to sell off my HOBBY produced soap bars so I can continue making. The fee&#039;s involved however make it pointless and it&#039;s cheaper for me to just throw the soap out ... such a waste!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:16:30 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Rachel Schofield [Signature #218]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Rachel Schofield]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:17:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #217]</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:29:44 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ms Elaine Macey [Signature #216]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ms Elaine Macey<p>This is a totally ridiculous situation and completely revenue raising ... serving no particular purpose at all !  We natural soapmakers are doing the public a service - giving them an alternative to the chemically saturation cosmetics currently on the market !</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:03:15 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #215]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 8 Nov 2011 06:33:12 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Melanie Commerford [Signature #214]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Melanie Commerford, Woree, Qld, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:54:28 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #213]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:42:21 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Anonymous [Signature #212]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia<p>I would like to be able to sell soap occasionally at the local market or gift/craft shops. However, due to the large registration fee it is not feasible or profitable to even consider this an option. I am not wanting to start a business, but with the large fee involved the only way that you can sell soap profitably in Australia is if you manufacture large quantities as a full time business. This makes it very difficult for hobbyists.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:26:12 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Tony Peppercorn [Signature #211]</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 04:24:49 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Patricia Ryan [Signature #210]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Patricia Ryan, Ourimbah, NSW, Australia<p>Please don&#039;t hang us out to dry!!!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 04:15:19 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Anonymous [Signature #209]</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 03:09:26 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs. Anonymous [Signature #208]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, NSW, Australia<p>I am a disability pensioner, love making soap for myself and a handful of locals and would not earn the amount required from my hobby in a year!  Very very unfair to be expected to pay this.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 07:19:45 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Claire Nielsen [Signature #207]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:11:55 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Jennifer Lownds [Signature #206]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Jennifer Lownds, Wallerawang, Australia<p>I have no problem with the requirement to register, but the amount of the Tier 1 fee is prohibitive to small business. It would be more appropriate for businesses which will import/manufacture much smaller amounts to pay a smaller fee.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 03:36:16 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Jessica Henderson [Signature #205]</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 1 Dec 2010 09:07:44 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #204]</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 6 Nov 2010 03:37:42 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #203]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Australia<p>reduce the fee&#039;s for soap makers give and give us a fair go</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:02:38 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Diana Wain [Signature #202]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Diana Wain, Australia<p>A revenue raising fee that is only of benefit to the government, and not to the soapmaker or the consumer.<br />
Come on Aussies, we really do need to make a stand for the little people on this one!!!!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 6 Aug 2010 03:27:51 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Anonymous [Signature #201]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, NSW, Australia<p>The fee has gone up again this year to $395!  I&#039;m outraged that the fee even exists, let alone that it&#039;s gone up!  The once a year registration is ridiculous.<br />
How sad that the Australian Government charges small businesses so much it&#039;s hard for them to survive.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:15:44 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Anonymous [Signature #200]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Australia<p>It is a pity the cost of making soap is high enough and you do it because you want to make a positive difference to peoples skin. However this ridiculous fee is a real deterrent!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:48:18 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Aliya Hutchison [Signature #199]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Aliya Hutchison, Brisbane]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:51:36 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Toni O'Mara [Signature #198]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Toni O&#039;Mara, QLD]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 9 Jul 2010 06:39:15 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Anonymous [Signature #197]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, QLD, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 5 Jul 2010 06:40:06 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Rhiannon Woollard [Signature #196]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Rhiannon Woollard, Melbourne, VIC, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:13:56 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Suzanne Brenzi [Signature #195]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Suzanne Brenzi, Nilgen, Western Australia, Australia<p>As an &quot;almost pensioner&quot; hobby soaper who just wants to recoup some of my outlay, I would love to sell my CP soaps, but the registration fee is impractical in my situation.   I doubt I would make enough profit to cover the fee!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 09:45:53 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anne Penny [Signature #194]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anne Penny<p>Please eliminate or reduce this fee- I am a very small home based soap-making business and that fee cuts into any profits I might hope to make and I do not feel I get any benefit from this registration.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:29:28 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Anonymous [Signature #193]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Tamworth, NSW, Australia<p>NICNAS is just revenue raising. You get nothing for your money.I resent the fact that we are paying the $380 yet other people sell soap at the markets and don&#039;t pay it.NICNAS does nothing about this.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:01:49 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms J Lye [Signature #192]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms J Lye, Australia<p>This fee really impedes the small business soap making community. It should be revised or done away with altogether.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:32:24 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Berylee Lay [Signature #191]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Berylee Lay, Albany, WA, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:43:21 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Laura West [Signature #190]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Laura West, Mount Barker, Western Australia<p>I will pay the fee this week, but I know that it will throw any earnings back to 0 for the rest of this financial year.<br />
A fee of approx 30 AUD, like the fee for registering a business name, would have been appropriate. 381 AUD - to be paid in full, even though we are half through the year now - is too much.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs Nicole Blears [Signature #189]</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:14:27 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>miss Rachel Bennett [Signature #188]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[miss Rachel Bennett, Christchurch, New Zealand, New Zealand]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:24:55 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Serenity Raven-Wolf [Signature #187]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Serenity Raven-Wolf, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 1 Feb 2010 01:06:36 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Tanya Boye [Signature #186]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Tanya Boye, Katoomba, NSW, Australia<p>A small business is costly to start up. For the soaper fist stepping into sales, there is expensive public and product liability insurance as well as the initial outlay on equipment and supplies. This can be a huge amount of money to spend in the hopes that you *might* make a profit. NICNAS registration is simply another fee to add to the already high costs and for no real benefit to the public. I call on the Government to price this more affordably and encourage small business to prosper</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Caroline Bauer [Signature #185]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:15:37 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Staci Marquez-Nichols [Signature #184]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Staci Marquez-Nichols<p>Don&#039;t kill small business!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:06:58 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Sarah Morton [Signature #183]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Sarah Morton, Brisbane, Qld, Australia<p>Yet another revenue raising tactic and a backhanded attempt to close off soapmaking to the battler.</p>

<p>Please consider the adverse impact this will have on the quality of soaps when people will have to revert to ready made melt and pour.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:22:04 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Robyn Deakin, NSW, Australia<p>absolutely ludicrous imo. small scale soap makers do it because they love the benefits of the product they make. it certainly wont make us millions! too many overheads as it is to even make a decent weekly income.<br />
come on, fair go!</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Sydney, NSW, Australia<p>I was in disbelief when I discovered how much the registration fee was - regardless of how big or small a seller they are. Certainly a deterrent for a soap maker with a genuine passion to produce a quality product.  How about a sliding scale? Sounds like a money-grabbing &quot;tax&quot; for those least able to afford it. No benefit whatsover other than being able to list a NICNAS number.</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:05:32 UTC</pubDate>
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Haven&#039;t you taxed us enough?<br />
It&#039;s starting to get ridiculous.</p>]]></description>
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