Alan Ferguson (SA, Deputy-President) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Evans, the Minister representing the Prime Minister. Given that the Prime Minister’s trip to the United States was first announced on 28 August and the financial crisis on Wall Street was not sparked until three weeks later, on 15 September, when Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, is it a fact that the Prime Minister’s trip was scheduled well before the Wall Street meltdown and was not about the economy at all?