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

My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware that Mr Brendan Stewart, the AWB chairman, told Mr Volcker in a letter dated 20 September last year that:

AWB did not make or conceal any illicit payments to the former Iraqi regime.

And elsewhere:

For example, it is obvious from your latest report that the committee is concerned about the use of fees for fictitious trucking services paid to alleged transport companies. AWB played no part in this. We did not sit within this category.

Given these statements and many others that I could have read out by Mr Stewart, which have now been shown to be demonstrably false, why did the Prime Minister yesterday invite Mr Stewart to join the delegation to Iraq?

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