Bob McMullan (Fraser, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Federal/State Relations) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Transport and Regional Services. I refer the minister to the statement he made on 12 January 2007 relating to the government’s review of wheat exporting arrangements. I also refer him to the statement this morning by the member for O’Connor, who seems to have been unavoidably detained elsewhere, on the National Party’s attitude to the future of our wheat marketing arrangements. He said:

We can spell corruption, they don’t seem to be able to do so.

Further, he said:

If that’s not a front for the corrupt company AWB, I don’t know what is …

What is the Deputy Prime Minister’s response to these statements?

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