Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I have a further supplementary question. Is it true that the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank is also the chair of the board of Securency, which has now been accused of having agents putting multimillion dollar funds into offshore tax havens as a result of the pursuit of contractual arrangements, including with countries like Sudan, which have been proscribed by the United States because of their terrorist status? I also ask the minister, does it not trouble the government enough to ask the Reserve Bank about its subsidiary’s dealing with the regime of Saddam Hussein in the 1990s; and if it has information about those particular dealings, what is that particular information?