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 Foreign Affairs. After 10 years as foreign minister and as the minister responsible under Australian law for enforcing UN sanctions against Iraq, does the minister accept any responsibility whatsoever for his department’s failure to have in place any systems or procedures in relation to how its staff should proceed in response to allegations relating to the breach of sanctions, as concluded in this, Commissioner Cole’s report?

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