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

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister’s interview with Kerry O’Brien on the 7.30 Report last night when he was asked:

... don’t you want to know whether Australia has breached its international obligations or one of your ministers, that is Mr Downer, has breached obligations imposed upon him by Australian regulations ... ?

It was then answered by you ‘... yes I do ...’. If this is the case, will the Prime Minister now agree to submit this Federal Executive Council minute—which the opposition has drafted for him—which extends Mr Cole’s letters patents so he can make conclusions about whether the government has done its job in enforcing UN sanctions against Saddam Hussein’s regime? I seek leave to table it.

Leave not granted.

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