OVERSEAS TRADE: Wheat’s single selling-desk under threat*

Australia’s single selling-desk for wheat has, over many years, secured a profitable market for Australia’s wheat exports. Ending this arrangement will damage the livelihoods of thousands of Australian wheat-growers, warns Colin Teese, a former deputy secretary of the Department of Trade.Warren Truss,Trade MinisterIt is a matter of record that the political debacle which has developed in Iraq coincided with the scandal relating to wheat sales by Australia’s AWB. Not that the two events…

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