Stephen Smith (Perth, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Industry, Infrastructure and Industrial Relations) Share this | Hansard source

My question is also to the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. Isn’t it a fact that a specialist consultant undertook an analysis of the financial records provided by Cowra abattoir and PD Mulligan and provided a report on the financial position of Cowra abattoir over the period 2003 to 2006 to the Office of Workplace Services? If the Cowra administrator found there were highly questionable transfers on the books of the company over the period of the investigation, why didn’t the Office of Workplace Services? Now that the minister has had 24 hours to check, when did the minister, his office, his department or the Office of Workplace Services first become aware that, by 30 June 2006, $1.18 million had been transferred from the Cowra abattoir to a related company of the owner?

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