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

My question again is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I refer to his answer to my last question, when he referred me to answers delivered by his officials to Senate estimates. Will the minister confirm that in fact his officials have been gagged in Senate estimates when asked questions on this matter? Will he confirm that the reason which officials gave for not answering questions on this matter was that these matters were being handled by the Cole inquiry? Minister, why have you once again failed to tell this parliament the truth when you know that the Cole inquiry has no powers to investigate companies which are not mentioned in the Volcker inquiry?

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