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Thursday, 14 September 1978


Senator DURACK (Western AustraliaAttorneyGeneral) - I thought that Senator Georges was concerned about a logical difficulty arising out of something I had said, namely, that one has to have sales before one can get an allocation and so on. I am advised that one can import crude and sell it. The allocation is based on sales. However, one has up to six months in which to determine sales before being required to take the allocation. I think that probably overcomes the problem that Senator Georges saw arising. I can understand the honourable senator's concern. What will happen to discounting as a result of these policies is something that we will see when the scheme is in operation. There may be greater difficulties in the path of the discounter- I do not know. We will just have to see what happens.







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