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 Prime Minister. I refer to the notes of a meeting between his foreign policy adviser and senior AWB representatives last May when his office advised AWB about dealing with the UN Volcker inquiry in the following terms:

... keep your response narrow, technical ... complain about the process ... keep narrow, be a small target ...

I also refer to the Prime Minister’s reply to a parliamentary question six months ago when he said that his foreign policy adviser did not entirely agree with the accuracy of these notes. Can the Prime Minister, six months later, now tell the parliament definitively which elements of this record are inaccurate about the advice his staff gave to the AWB—the ‘keep your response narrow’ bit, the ‘keep the response technical’ bit, the ‘be a small target’ bit or the ‘complain about the process’ bit?

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