Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and International Security) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. Deputy Prime Minister, given that this US Department of Defense report, which names AWB, requested immediate action from the Coalition Provisional Authority, of which Australia was a principal member, what action did the government take in response to this report? Is it not a fact that by turning a blind eye to this report AWB’s corrupt contracts with Iraq continued to run for another 12 months after this September 2003 warning?

Mark Vaile (Lyne, National Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The government did not turn a blind eye to anything.