Most observers of the Australian (and others») experience with financial liberalisation have concluded that: (i) ideally, good risk management practices — including hedging — would be established before
full liberalisation, so as to mitigate subsequent risks to financial stability; but (ii) it was difficult to develop such practices until entities were actually exposed to some risk; and (iii) as a result, a somewhat disruptive period of learning by your own mistakes was inevitable.