David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence, Senator Bob Carr. I refer the minister to the government's decision to cancel the $225 million contract to buy self-propelled howitzers from South Korea. Does the minister stand by his response to Senator Nash's question last year, that there would be no trade fallout from this cancelled contract, which, in his words 'did not figure' in the minister's many discussions with Korean government representatives?