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Grains Council defends wheat export monopoly
4 Nov 2004
The Grains Council of Australia attacked proposals by the Productivity Commission to reform Australia’s single desk system for wheat exports. Grains Council chief operating officer David Ginns said the single desk system "comes under a lot of unwarranted criticism from people with commercial interests in seeing the system dismantled and from policy fundamentalists who will stop at nothing to have their version of the world imposed. Globally Australia is a small producer, our global share of wheat is about 4.5 per cent and six per cent of barley and our single desk arrangements allow us to even-up unfair competition we struggle against. Our competitors in the global market are transnational corporations, four of which control close to 75 per cent of the world's grain trade."
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