Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Wasn’t AWB the single largest supplier of kickbacks to Saddam Hussein under the oil for food program?

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

That is why we set up a royal commission.

John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I think that was the finding of the Volcker inquiry and, as the Minister for Foreign Affairs quite properly interjected, it is the reason we established the Cole inquiry.