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

We were talking earlier about the phrase ‘characteristic diligence’. No-one would accuse the Leader of the Opposition of characteristic diligence. For a start, the Leader of the Opposition might be interested to know that it was not Australian money; it was money from the Iraqi sale of oil which was paid into a United Nations escrow account. That is the first point. The second point is that I would have thought the government had absolutely done the right thing by setting up the Cole inquiry—

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