House debates

Wednesday, 15 February 2006

Questions without Notice

Oil for Food Program

2:41 pm

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

My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister. I refer him to his formal statement to the Australian parliament:

All the information that we had was provided to the Volcker inquiry.

I ask the minister, for the fifth time: did the government provide any documents from the Wheat Export Authority to the Volcker inquiry?

Photo of Mark VaileMark Vaile (Lyne, National Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | | Hansard source

I answered this question a moment ago. In terms of the background of the work of the WEA, the responsibilities under the Wheat Marketing Act and the time frame of the Volcker inquiry, it has been answered.