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

Honourable members may laugh, and your laughter can well be directed to AWB Ltd if that is how you feel about it. According to the allegation of what I was supposed to have said at this meeting, I understand that the words that the member for Griffith chose not to use were that apparently I said to AWB Ltd, ‘Tell us the truth.’ Apparently I demanded they tell us the truth.

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