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The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 41:4, pp. 579^87 To Speak With One Voice: The Quest by Australian Farmers for Federal Unity. By Tom Connors, National Farmers' Federation, Kingston, ACT, 1996. pp. vii + 284, ISBN 1 875664 10 6, $25. It was the claim of John McEwen, leader of the Country Party over much of its years of shared government from 1949 to 1972, that the function of his party was to enact into legislation the will of those who produced the products to which any agricultural policy applied. The problem was, of course, how to divine the will of those who produced when they spoke with many voices. McEwen was shrewd enough to design most of his policies within his own department and to present them to various primary producer organisations to adopt as their own. Even if producers can speak with one voice, as they increasingly have been since the formation of the National Farmers' Federation (NFF) in 1979, they can be sidelined if they confront a government with an opposing political philosophy, as occurred in the mid-1980s. Yet governments have sought and heeded the uni¢ed advice of producers, even when basic political philosophies
The Australian Journal of Agricultural Resource Economics – Wiley
Published: Dec 1, 1997
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