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

My question is again to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade. I refer to two opposition questions yesterday to the Deputy Prime Minister about whether his office or his department at any stage helped BHP, the AWB or Tigris in recovering money from Iraq. Minister, did Mr Bob Bowker, Director of the Middle East Section of DFAT, have any discussions with Norman Davidson Kelly, of Tigris Petroleum in Melbourne, in September 2000?

Mark Vaile (Lyne, National Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I have no knowledge of any discussion being insinuated or alleged by the member for Griffith as having occurred between those two gentlemen. If you would like me to check the records of DFAT I will, and I will come back to you, but I have not been advised of any discussions between those two gentlemen in September 2000.