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Sharing Scarcity: Rationing and Price Subsidisation of Tea in Australia, 1942–55

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type="main"> Australians were the world's second highest consumers of tea per capita during the 1930s. After losing access to its main supplier, the Dutch East Indies, with the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Commonwealth of Australia established a Tea Control Board and later a coupon-based tea rationing scheme. Drawing upon archival sources, this article examines the regulation of the supply of tea in Australia until 1955. Rationing delivered reduced amounts of tea to Australians at heavily discounted prices, maintaining a trend towards reduced tea consumption that had begun in the early 1930s.

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  • Peter Griggs, 2015. "Sharing Scarcity: Rationing and Price Subsidisation of Tea in Australia, 1942–55," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 55(1), pages 62-79, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ozechr:v:55:y:2015:i:1:p:62-79
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