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 my question yesterday concerning his foreign policy adviser’s meeting with the AWB on how the AWB should respond to questions from the UN’s Volcker inquiry. The Prime Minister’s answer yesterday was:

We alone of Western governments have established a body to inquire into these matters.

Will the Prime Minister identify which element of these terms of reference that he provided to the Cole inquiry gives the commissioner any power to make any determination on whether or not ministers or ministerial staff acted appropriately in coaching the AWB on how truthful to be with the Volcker inquiry?

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