McGovern figures correctSir,The pages of News Weekly have recently contained two important contributions to the so-called free trade vs protectionist debate, or a better term would be the regulation-deregulation debate. Pat Byrne’s Cover Story “The facts behind the rural revolt” drew attention to the now well-known paper by Dr Mark McGovern on the Unimportance of Exports to Australian Agriculture, published in the Australasian Journal of Regional Studies in 1999. McGovern’s paper established, us…
