Wheat Marketing in Transition

16There is something about wheat. Of all the basic foodstuffs, this grain seems to arouse the most passion and attract the greatest attention of governments. This book describes how one government, that of Australia, has dealt with the problem of wheat . In so doing it tracks the life and death of collective wheat marketing as an institution, and its organisational manifestation in the form of the Australian Wheat Board which was central to Australian wheat marketing for nearly sixty years. The manner in which the Board continued successfully to reproduce itself over time provides a neat example of how competing values play out in the policy process and how institutions having been established to further one set of values can effectively exclude other values from policy consideration.04Preface1. Introduction2. Australian Wheat Industry Policy in Context3. The Birth of Collective Wheat Marketing4. From Orderly Marketing to Deregulation 1948-19885. From Domestic Deregulation to Privatisation6. The Monopoly Wheat Exporter and the Dictator7. The Aftermath of Oil-for-Food and the Death of an Institution8. Lessons and ReflectionsIndex