BUT EQUALITY OF TREATMENT WAS AN AUSTRALIAN PROMISE NOT KEPT. HERE AMONG GOOD FRIENDS I WILL ARGUE THAT AUSTRALIA HAS BEEN POORLY SERVED BY SOME OF ITS PUBLIC SERVANTS AND WILL NOT BE WELL SERVED IN THE LONG RUN BY DEBASING ITS ETHICAL AND MORAL VALUES FOR SHORT-TERM ADVANTAGES. LET ME BRIEFLY MAKE MY CASE. I COULD ARGUE THAT NO ONE DID MORE TO ADVANCE MY PERSONAL FORTUNES THAN REX CONNOR, EVEN THOUGH THAT WAS THE LAST THING THAT HE HAD IN MIND. HE MADE IT IMMEDIATELY CLEAR THAT HE WAS OUT TO GET UTAH WHOSE ONLY DOCUMENTED SINS WERE THAT IT WAS VERY PROSPEROUS AND THAT IT WAS FOREIGN OWNED. AND CONNOR IN HIS FOLLY PUT IN EXPORT LICENSING ON COAL AND USED IT TO FORCE UP PRICES ABOVE THOSE ESTABLISHED BY BARGAINING IN A FREE MARKET. THIS SINGLE ACT ABROGATED EVERY LONG- TERM CONTRACT ARRIVED AT IN GOOD FAITH BETWEEN THE AUSTRALIAN SUPPLIERS AND THE JAPANESE CUSTOMERS. IT WAS PREDICTABLE AND UNDERSTANDABLE THAT THE JAPANESE WOULD LAUNCH 5.