Warren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

I was travelling between Hong Kong and Manila on that day, so I did not make those statements on that day. He also chooses to take out of context what I said at the National Party conference in Emerald in March this year. Let me make it absolutely clear that in that speech I went to great lengths to emphasise that Australia expects high standards of our businesspeople when they operate overseas. Right at the beginning of that speech I said, ‘We have high business standards and ethics in Australia and even if they are not shared in other parts of the world that does not mean that we should compromise our standards.’ I made it abundantly clear that I expect high standards of Australian businesses.

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