摘要：After more than two decades of economic reform there were few truly egregious examples of government sanctioned protection left to greet the incoming Rudd Government. Perhaps the most outstanding was the monopoly granted to a publicly listed company to control the entire sale of one of Australia's largest export industries-wheat. It is to the government's great credit that this monopoly has at last been dismantled.
The Institute of Public Affairs has been at the forefront of arguing for the removal of restrictions on export wheat, and other commodities for many years. As former executive director Mike Nahan noted in his farewell IPA Review editorial in June 2005, the IPA
