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Australian Governments and Automotive Manufacturing, 1919‐1939

Australian Governments and Automotive Manufacturing, 1919‐1939 In recent years the progressive lowering of tariff barriers in Australia has produced a predictable backlash from those who are directly affected. The reaction, however, extends to academics and others who have no pecuniary interest in the outcome, and who have argued that the tariff represented a policy consciously designed to promote the economic development and defence capacity of this country. On the basis of experience in the motor vehicle industry, we argue that these factors had very little to do with interwar tariff policy. Rather, it was the outcome of an interplay between the Commonwealth government’s need for revenue, the activities of “the lobby” in seeking rents, and the practices of the Customs bureaucracy. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Politics and History Wiley

Australian Governments and Automotive Manufacturing, 1919‐1939

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
Departments of Government & History, University of Queensland & Blackwell Publishers 1999
ISSN
0004-9522
eISSN
1467-8497
DOI
10.1111/1467-8497.00071
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Abstract

In recent years the progressive lowering of tariff barriers in Australia has produced a predictable backlash from those who are directly affected. The reaction, however, extends to academics and others who have no pecuniary interest in the outcome, and who have argued that the tariff represented a policy consciously designed to promote the economic development and defence capacity of this country. On the basis of experience in the motor vehicle industry, we argue that these factors had very little to do with interwar tariff policy. Rather, it was the outcome of an interplay between the Commonwealth government’s need for revenue, the activities of “the lobby” in seeking rents, and the practices of the Customs bureaucracy.

Journal

Australian Journal of Politics and HistoryWiley

Published: Aug 1, 1999

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