Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and International Security) Share this | Hansard source

Is the Prime Minister aware of the contents of this letter from the Cole commission of inquiry, which says:

... it would not be appropriate for a commissioner to seek amendment of the terms of reference to address a matter significantly different to that in the existing terms of reference ... that the commissioner should seek amendments to the terms of reference to enable him to determine whether Australia has breached its international obligations, or a Minister has breached obligations imposed upon him by Australian regulations falls ... within the latter category.

Prime Minister, in your reply just now to my previous question, haven’t you once again just deliberately misled the parliament in order to—

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