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 to the statement issued yesterday by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry that there was ‘nothing new’ in the audit report by the United States Defense Department in September 2003 which identified the AWB by name as a company that was abusing the oil for food program. Deputy Prime Minister, if there was nothing new in this report—and therefore the government already knew about the AWB’s inflated contract prices of up to $15 million—how did the government already know, and when?

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