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Briefing Paper No. 23/1999 by John Wilkinson
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- The NSW dairy industry was, once, nearly the equal of Victoria but has
declined in recent years (pp.1-8)
- Because a section of the industry tended to obtain low returns, the
industry has been the recipient of various schemes of assistance over the years
(pp.8-24)
- After the loss of Australia's largest overseas market for butter -
following the UK's joining the EEC in 1973 and the inroads of margarine on
butter consumption - the industry has gone through a process of: elimination of
assistance; rationalisation of production; and centring of production in
Victoria (pp.6-7,24-26,29-31)
- The drive, from within the dairy industry, for the final elimination of
assistance has been emanating from Victoria (pp.36-37)
- A large overseas multinational - the Italian company Parmalat - has
recently entered production in northern Australia and may enter significantly
into production in New South Wales, given federal government endorsement of a
strategy to expand Australian agri-food products (pp.28,38-43)
