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

The fact is that the officials from my department have made it perfectly clear that there has been no attempt at a cover-up and no attempt to turn a blind eye, and there has been no evidence presented to the Cole commission to support that proposition. My meeting with Mr Volcker was very friendly and it was right at the end of the Volcker process. It was a meeting which I asked to have because I could see that the Volcker commission was likely to have critical things to say about AWB Ltd. The onus of that discussion was that AWB should be able to see a draft copy of the report and comment on it before the final report was produced. I can absolutely assure the House there was nothing dramatic or exciting in that meeting at all—no matter what, by the way, Tony Walker may claim.

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