Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and International Security) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that the coalition went to the last election with an ironclad commitment to maintain Australia’s single-desk marketing arrangements for wheat? Doesn’t the Prime Minister’s statement today that he has mixed views on the future of the single desk mean that this clear-cut election commitment may now be about to be ditched? Prime Minister, hasn’t the failure of the succession of National Party agriculture ministers to provide proper oversight of AWB’s use of this legislative monopoly, especially during the $300 million wheat for weapons scandal, thrown the whole future of the single desk and this industry into doubt?

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