Wheat Marketing in Transition The Transformation of the Australian Wheat Board /

• Main Author: Botterill, Linda Courtenay (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: Environment & Policy, 53
• Subjects: Environment.; Political science.; Environment, general.; Political Science.

This detailed account tells the background story of a privatised monopoly whose sharp practices embroiled a national government in scandal and shocked a nation that prides itself on the strength of its institutions. AWB Limited, the former Australian Wheat Board that in the 1990s was sold into the p...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Australian Wheat Industry Policy in Context
• 3. The Birth of Collective Wheat Marketing
• 4. From Orderly Marketing to Deregulation 1948-1988
• 5. From Domestic Deregulation to Privatisation
• 6. The Monopoly Wheat Exporter and the Dictator
• 7. The Aftermath of Oil-for-Food and the Death of an Institution
• 8. Lessons and Reflections
• Index.