Senate debates
Wednesday, 29 November 2006
Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers
Oil for Food Program
3:18 pm
Ross Lightfoot (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source
Thank you. That is very generous of the clock. I will wind up by saying this: I do not support what happened with that $290-odd million that was paid out in bribes. I do not support that at all. I also do not support the fact that AWB is penalised by the United States and the European Union when they pay billions and billions of dollars in annual subsidies to their farmers that our farmers do not get. If you are going to have a level playing field, the United States and the European Union should remove subsidies. Then perhaps some of these gross misdeeds that have happened, and that undoubtedly have happened to AWB, will be put to one side. (Time expired)
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