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 Minister for Trade. I refer the minister to his statement on 15 January this year about the AWB’s payments to Iraq under UN sanctions. He said:

I think that whilst we’ve all now got the benefit of hindsight and we can look back on who maybe should’ve known what, the reality is that even with the benefit of hindsight the things that were happening at the time were reasonable …

Does the minister stand by his statement?

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