Kelvin Thomson (Wills, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Public Accountability and Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

The chickens of this failed policy are now coming home to roost. The Iraqi government has suspended all wheat imports from Australia. So it is Australian farmers who will now pay the price for this cowboy foreign policy, the bribes and kickbacks entered into by AWB, and the culture of cover-up—don’t ask, don’t tell—which has become the hallmark of this government. If anyone at all still believes that the AWB thought it was complying with the UN sanctions, they should have a look at the BHP Tigris deal. BHP and AWB concocted a scheme to recover a debt from a BHP wheat shipment—

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