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

My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. I refer to the minister’s inability to answer the last two questions I asked him today and the questions I asked him yesterday. Minister, given that it is two years since the Volcker inquiry was established, given that you have had dozens of DFAT officials poring over all DFAT files over that period of time and given that the Cole inquiry has now been established for three months, how can you possibly come into question time today as Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and claim to be unprepared to answer these basic questions concerning your role in this $300 million wheat for weapons scandal?

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