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Wheat Marketing in Transition
Linda Courtenay Botterill
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Description for Wheat Marketing in Transition
Hardback. This book describes the Australian government's approach to the "problem of wheat", tracking the life and death of collective wheat marketing and its manifestation in the Australian Wheat Board which was central to wheat marketing there for nearly sixty years. Series: Environment & Policy. Num Pages: 148 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MBF; JPL; JPQ; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 409.
This detailed account tells the background story of a privatised monopoly whose sharp practices embroiled a national government in scandal and shocked a nation that prides itself on the strength of its institutions. AWB Limited, the former Australian Wheat Board that in the 1990s was sold into the private sector, paid more than $US200m in kickbacks to the pariah regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, exploiting the provisions of the United Nations’ Oil for Food program by inflating the price of the wheat it sent there to disguise the pay-offs that secured the contracts. The ensuing uproar threatened the careers ... Read more
This detailed account tells the background story of a privatised monopoly whose sharp practices embroiled a national government in scandal and shocked a nation that prides itself on the strength of its institutions. AWB Limited, the former Australian Wheat Board that in the 1990s was sold into the private sector, paid more than $US200m in kickbacks to the pariah regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, exploiting the provisions of the United Nations’ Oil for Food program by inflating the price of the wheat it sent there to disguise the pay-offs that secured the contracts. The ensuing uproar threatened the careers ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
Series
Environment & Policy
Number of Pages
148
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400728035
SKU
V9789400728035
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About Linda Courtenay Botterill
Linda Courtenay Botterill is Professor in Australian Public Policy at the University of Canberra, Australia. Her field of expertise is Australian politics and public policy with a focus on rural policy and politics. Professor Botterill’s work in this area builds on nearly fifteen years as a public policy practitioner in the Australian Public Service, as a policy officer in two ... Read more
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