John Faulkner (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

I do not accept the premise that is included in that question and I certainly do not accept Senator Trood’s very unfair and, I believe, inaccurate analysis of the nature of relations between India and Australia. It is important, I think, given the information I have provided Senator Trood in answer to his question, that he does understand the circumstances and that India is not a party to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

I must say that it is perhaps semantically easy to draw a parallel between the issue of climate change and this critical issue in relation to our approach to the export of uranium to countries that— (Time expired)