Alexander Downer (Mayo, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

is the fact is that at the end of this investigation the United Nations concluded that AWB Ltd had not been doing what had been alleged by the Canadian Wheat Board. But all of this is being considered by the Cole commission and, regardless of what the opposition may say or claim—and they have spent three weeks of parliamentary time talking of nothing else, no doubt to the complete distraction and boredom of the Australian public—the simple fact is that the Cole commission is looking through all of these issues. We have given all appropriate information that the Cole commission has wanted to the Cole commission and we look forward to them completing their hearings and to Commissioner Cole producing his report.

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