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 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. Deputy Prime Minister, given that the wheat price went up by more than $50 per metric tonne in the AWB’s contract with Saddam Hussein, why did your government continue to turn a blind eye to this fact, particularly as AWB employee, Mr Hogan, has stated that a $50 increase would have been detected because it would have rendered Australian wheat at an exceptionally high price when measured against the international market price? Deputy Prime Minister, if we cannot turn to the leader of the National Party to tell us what the international wheat price is, who can we turn to?

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