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 to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I refer again to evidence presented to the Cole inquiry yesterday that the minister said to AWB chief executive Andrew Lindberg last year that the AWB ‘can’t be responsible for what happened to the money after it was paid to Alia’. When did the minister first become aware that AWB had made payments to Alia?

Alexander Downer (Mayo, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I have nothing to add to what I said to the House in November last year, which from my recollection was in the context of the establishment of the Volcker inquiry.