House debates

Tuesday, 14 February 2006

Questions without Notice

Oil for Food Program

2:51 pm

Photo of Kevin RuddKevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and International Security) Share this | Hansard source

the AWB’s new contract arrangements with Iraq, which quoted diplomats warning:

... the Iraqis add bogus additional charges like “inland transportation” when the goods arrive at ports, or buy goods at inflated prices, often 10 percent or more over the necessary price.

And it went on to list wheat as one specific example. Deputy Prime Minister, if you were not aware of the front page of the New York Times and the warnings that it conveyed—

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