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This chapter sets out to provide some contextual information about the Australian wheat industry to set the scene for the story and analysis that follow. First it provides some factual information on the Australian wheat industry; its geographic location, the nature of the industry and its contribution to Australia’s economy. The industry is a major contributor to Australia’s export earnings and has also played an important role in the development of much of the country’s cultural and political life. The second part of the chapter provides some historical rural policy context for the discussion of the evolution of the statutory marketing arrangements for wheat that emerged in the 1940s.
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Some of the material in this section was previously published by the author in the Taiwanese Journal of Australian Studies Vol VI, 2005 and is reproduced with the permission of the publisher.
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Botterill, L.C. (2012). Australian Wheat Industry Policy in Context. In: Wheat Marketing in Transition. Environment & Policy, vol 53. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2804-2_2
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