this government has spent an awful lot of time in power, considering how little they seem to "know". The biggest problem is Beazley is not a credible alternative. In any case, once again we are shown what a pathetic little weasel we have running the country.
I bet that a lot of things may have been discussed with their departments, but the crucial memos were never actually sighted, giving them the ability to say "I never saw that".
The worst part about this is government ministers (Downer and others) making money on AWB shares at the time these allegations started to surface, but then denying that they knew anything.
This is quite an interesting read - an exerpt from the Sunday program.
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Does the public have a right to know that in 2001, as secret allegations of AWB kickbacks had just come across his desk, our Foreign Minister Alexander Downer was the beneficiary of investments in AWB shares? Or that Prime Ministerial confidante Senator Bill Heffernan told Parliament he’s a beneficiary of a trust which our investigations show holds AWB shares?
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