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. I refer the Deputy Prime Minister to the 10 June 2003 email to his department from Michael Long which, if electronic files were not provided to Volcker, was not provided to the Volcker inquiry either. Minister, didn’t this email contain the memorandum from the Coalition Provisional Authority, asking your representative to ‘identify which contracts under the oil for food program have a kickback or surcharge, often 10 per cent, and to identify and indicate them on the matrix’? Minister, what action did your department take to obtain this matrix—yet another warning of the AWB’s involvement in kickbacks to Iraq—or was this warning ignored also?

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