Mark Vaile (Lyne, National Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

I am trying to respond to the member’s question. I am sure he wants an answer. First and foremost has been exercising our responsibilities as a government to the wheat growers of Australia, to get their export product on the markets of the world. The other part of the question was with regard to the structure of contracts. The structure of contracts was purely a matter between AWB and the United Nations. The third point I want to make is that—and the member for Griffith, seeing as he has been an avid reader of a lot of the correspondence and the documentation that has come forward in this inquiry, would realise this—in every bit of correspondence there was a warning to AWB to be compliant with the conditions of the UN sanctions program.

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