| Description |
xii, 146 pages : map ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Environment & policy, 1383-5130 ; volume 53 |
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Environment & policy ; volume 53
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| Contents |
1. Introduction -- Analytical Framework -- Historical Institutionalism -- The Role of Values -- Making Rural Policy in Australia -- The Socio-Political Context -- The Book's Structure -- References -- 2. Australian Wheat Industry Policy in Context -- Wheat in the Australian Economy -- Wheat Exports -- The National Contribution -- The Rural Policy Paradigm -- References -- 3. The Birth of Collective Wheat Marketing -- Institutional Development and Change in the Wheat Industry -- The Nature of the Policy Community -- The Birth of the Australian Wheat Board -- A Parallel Case: The Establishment of the Canadian Wheat Board -- The International Context -- Conclusion -- References -- 4. From Orderly Marketing to Deregulation 1948-1988 -- A Changing Rural Policy Paradigm -- Institutional Development and Change -- The Industries Assistance Commission Reports -- The McColl Royal Commission -- Reviews of Statutory Marketing -- Contents note continued: The Changing Face of the Rural Policy Community -- Conclusion -- References -- 5. From Domestic Deregulation to Privatisation -- Institutional Change and Adaptation -- Some Context: The National Competition Policy -- The Privatisation Process -- The First Attempt at Change: The Newco Debate -- Hastening Slowly: The Second Debate -- Government Policy and the Privatisation Process -- Conclusion -- References -- 6. The Monopoly Wheat Exporter and the Dictator -- Iraq, Sanctions and Australian Wheat Exports -- The UN Sanctions Regime and the Oil-for-Food Program -- The Problem of Sanctions Implementation -- Parallel Timelines -- Oil-for-Food, AWB Limited and Institutional Reproduction -- Conclusion -- References -- 7. The Aftermath of Oil-for-Food and the Death of an Institution -- The End of the Single Desk -- The End of Grower Control -- The Aftermath -- The Values Dimension -- Impact on the Policy Community -- Conclusion -- References -- |
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8. Lessons and Reflections -- The Role of the Individual in the Demise of the Institution -- Values, Politics and Institutions -- Some Policy Lessons from the Death of Collective Wheat Marketing -- How Not to Privatise a Monopoly -- The Problem of Sanctions Implementation -- Collective Wheat Marketing in Australia -- References |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Environment |
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Environmental sciences |
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Political Science, general |
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Australian |
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Environment |
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Environmental sciences |
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Political Science, general |
| Notes |
"Environment"--Page 4 of cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Australian Wheat Board -- Corrupt practices.
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Australian Wheat Board -- History.
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Australian Wheat Board.
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United Nations. Oil-for-Food Program.
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Wheat trade -- Government policy -- Australia -- History.
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Wheat trade -- Government policy -- Australia.
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Wheat trade -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
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Wheat trade -- Australia -- History.
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Wheat trade -- Australia.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Foreign economic relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005782 -- Iraq.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79077342
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Australia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009597
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Iraq http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79077342 -- Foreign economic relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005782 -- Australia.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326
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| LC no. |
2011944272 |
| ISBN |
9400728034 |
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9789400728035 |
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