Kelvin Thomson (Wills, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Public Accountability and Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am happy to speak to the conduct of ministers and the role that ministers have played, and that is indeed what I am doing. We have a situation where Australian farmers were threatened with a price to be paid for the consequences of this government’s foreign policy, and we ended up with the size of the kickbacks being paid to Saddam Hussein increasing. This was all covered up. This was not something which ministers found out or made any attempt to find out and to let the Australian people know—

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