Colin Teese, former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Trade, looks at means to give stability to grain producers.
Farmers are up in arms about the Wheat Board’s privatisation (Australian Financial Review, April 3). Notwithstanding farmers’ current lamentations, the Board’s capacity to assist growers was probably largely destroyed in 1989, when the Labor government deregulated the domestic wheat market.
Memory-challenged politicians may not recall it, but the Wheat Board – and indeed ot…
