House debates Questions without Notice
Oil for Food Program
Kevin Rudd Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and International Security
2:47 pm
My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. I refer again to evidence presented to the Cole inquiry yesterday that the minister said to AWB chief executive Andrew Lindberg last year that the AWB ‘can’t be responsible for what happened to the money after it was paid to Alia’. When did the minister first become aware that AWB had made payments to Alia?
Alexander Downer Mayo, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs
I have nothing to add to what I said to the House in November last year, which from my recollection was in the context of the establishment of the Volcker inquiry.