Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer him again to his 25 March 2003 statement to parliament that:

... the oil for food program has been immorally and shamefully rorted by Saddam Hussein, who has used the proceeds of it to acquire his weapons capacity ...

Given that you have just said that the rort was widely known and that the AWB was the largest single user of the oil for food program worldwide, why didn’t it occur to the Prime Minister to investigate whether there were any problems with the AWB?

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