@article{Gerritsen:12287,
      recid = {12287},
      author = {Gerritsen, Rolf and Abbott, Jacky},
      title = {Again The Lucky Country?: Australian Rural Policy in 1988  and 1989},
      journal = {Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics},
      address = {1989-04},
      number = {430-2016-31541},
      pages = {17},
      year = {1989},
      abstract = {1988 and 1989 saw a strong continuation of the 1987 rural  recovery. Australia's emphasis on international  agricultural trade reform also dominated domestic policy,  which was concerned with complementary microeconomic  efficiency reforms. The most significant developments in  this vein were the reform of the marketing arrangements for  the wheat and sugar industries. The government continued  the "deal" it had made with the rural sector for  rationalisation of rural assistance in return for reforms  of industries affecting the rural sector's input and export  costs. The slow pace of these corresponding reforms in the  transport infrastructure and manufacturing industry sectors  meant that the truce between the farm organisations and the  Labor government was increasingly fragile by the end of  1989. The major intermittent "political" agenda item to  emerge in the review period was the conservation issue.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/12287},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.12287},
}