AGRICULTURE: Imports threaten $55 billion agricultural market*

The Queensland University of Technology School of Business is not in the habit of surrounding itself in controversy. But the opinions of its Mark McGovern – probably without meaning to – have changed all that in a paper entitled On The Unimportance of Exports to Australian Agriculture. Ministers, both State and Federal, along with other uninformed, have joined in the chorus of attack upon McGovern. Farmers, especially in Queensland, don’t quite know what to make of his assertions; cautiously, t…

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