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 Minister for Foreign Affairs and follows my earlier question to the Minister for Trade which he suggested I should address to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I refer to a statement from Mr Flugge of 22 March 2005 which states: ‘In the end, we probably used up to $US1 million in cash with no problems whatsoever.’ I also refer to a statement by a member of Mr Flugge’s team of the same date: ‘The Australian government was terrific in giving us the licence to get things done.’ Can the minister confirm whether Mr Trevor Flugge or Mr Flugge’s team transported over $1 million in cash from Kuwait to Baghdad between May and July 2003? How much cash did Mr Flugge have discretionary use of during his Baghdad posting?

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