FORMER red meat industry leader Dick Austen passed away in Sydney last week, aged 94.
Mr Austen served as chairman of the Australian Meat & Livestock Corporation, the predecessor to today’s Meat & Livestock Australia, for nine years up to 1994.
His term as AMLC chair coincided with some of the most profound changes ever seen in Australian red meat history, including the liberalisation of the Japanese and Korean beef and lamb export markets, expansion of trade into the United States after the end of the UK beef agreement era, establishment of AusMeat national meat and livestock trading…
