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

I will be very happy to see if I can provide the honourable gentleman with any information in relation to that question. I must confess my inadequacy, in that I do not carry all of that minute detail around in my head. I lack the honourable gentleman’s soaring capacity to do that. But I will do my best to find out.

What I do happen to have, not in my head but in my hand, is a press release dated 20 August 2002. It was issued by the shadow minister for foreign affairs. It is headed ‘2003 Wheat sales to Iraq’. It says:

The Federal Opposition welcomes the announcement by the Australian Wheat Board on the likely resumption of Australian wheat sales to Iraq in 2003.

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