"Organise or be damned" : Australian wheatgrowers' organisations and wheat marketing, 1927-1948

Smith, Robert Frederick Ingram

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"Organise or be damned" : Australian wheatgrowers' organisations and wheat marketing, 1927-1948

Date

1969

Authors

Smith, Robert Frederick Ingram

Abstract

This thesis examines the rise of non-partisan wheatgrowers' organisations and their attempts to persuade governments to introduce desired policies. The period covered extends from the foundation in 1927 of the first of the non-partisan organisations to the realisation in 1948 of their primary objective — an Australia-wide marketing and price support plan for wheat.