John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

that it is in the interests of Australian wheat growers, being shareholders in AWB Ltd, that the difficult situation in which the company now finds itself is not further aggravated by statements made without any basis in fact. The proper thing to do, the decent thing to do, is the approach that was advocated by a former Labor trade minister before the Senate estimates committee on 23 June 1994—and I refer to the member for Canberra, I think it was; a former trade minister—when he was asked certain questions in relation to an inquiry, believe it or not, into Centenary House. Do you remember that? This is what he had to say:

But this is a matter, I understand, being inquired into by the judicial inquiry and I think it should be left there.

And, properly enough, Senator Kemp, on behalf of the then opposition, said:

I take your point. I am aware that there is a major inquiry—

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