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. Is the Deputy Prime Minister aware of this report, prepared by the United States Department of Defense, dated September 2003, which evaluated 759 contracts under the oil for food program and which found that food commodity contracts were the most consistently overpriced? Is the minister aware that AWB Ltd is named in this report as a supplier with overpricing on a 500,000-tonne contract to the tune of $14.8 million? If the minister’s excuse for not acting before was that the AWB was not mentioned by name, what is his excuse for not acting on the basis of this report, where the AWB is explicitly named?

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