Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I am simply saying that I am unaware of them. In response to the honourable member’s question I would say that, as far as the risks associated with the implementation of this program were concerned, firstly, with regard to the cabinet’s deliberations on this matter, in the early part of 2009 an initial risk assessment was done for the cabinet; and, secondly, once a decision was taken, the implementation of the program was then provided to the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts and the department. The minister, I think, during the course of yesterday and the day before answered a range of questions concerning the risk assessments with which he was presented, both by Minter Ellison and other sources, and the minister’s response to each of those recommendations which came to him from his officers was based on that risk assessment.

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