Alexander Downer (Mayo, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, the point I make is that Zena Armstrong did follow this up, and I think she followed it up in an appropriate way. The point here is that if the Cole commission were to find that AWB Ltd knowingly paid kickbacks—and we will await the results of the Cole commission—they have done so in defiance of the government, in defiance of the United Nations and by all accounts—though this is yet to be fully tested in the Cole commission—in a way that was designed to obscure their actions from their very own board.

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