Kerry O'Brien (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Transport) Share this | Hansard source

I ask a supplementary question, Mr President. Can the minister confirm what criteria Minister McGauran will apply in deciding whether to apply the veto power to block wheat exports, while he holds it? How can wheat growers have any confidence in the minister for agriculture using the veto power responsibly when he has publicly defended the single desk and AWB’s monopoly? And, for that matter, how can the community have any confidence in the minister for agriculture when he presumably will continue to argue for the single desk while exercising the veto power and working with AWB?