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

My question is to the Prime Minister, and it follows from the one I asked him previously. It goes further to the letter from which I quoted, where Mr Stewart, on behalf of AWB, says:

AWB did not use or make payments to a fictitious transport company. As far as AWB knew, the inland transportation component of its UN approved contracts was legitimate.

Given that this letter was copied to you, Prime Minister—even though you seem to think you have no knowledge of it—and that the materials in it are so demonstrably false in terms of everything that has been presented to the Cole commission and to Volcker’s own inquiries, is there no other person in the grain business capable of conducting this foray to Iraq effectively other than Mr Stewart, who is so deeply compromised by these things?

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