Car Industry

UPDATE 7.35pm: Kevin Rudd has called an Auditor-General’s inquiry into the affair, but is standing by his denials that neither he nor his office has made any representations on behalf of car dealer John Grant, and is continuing a full email search through the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Follow the news links below for more.

KEVIN Rudd has a whole stack of explaining to do.

Under pressure: Treasury official Godwin Grech pictured today at the inquiry, where he said the PM's office had contacted him about OzCar.

His claim that he has done nothing wrong in relation to his car dealer mate John Grant has now officially conked out, and is up on the blocks looking like very much like he sold the Australian people a lemon.

As a result of this afternoon’s estimates hearings it now appears he has seriously misled Parliament over his relationship with his friend and neighbour, who runs a Kia dealership, and who famously lent him a ute as an electorate vehicle. At its worst, it appears the Prime Minister’s office - and possibly even the PM - directly interfered on behalf of the PM’s little car-dealing mate to make sure he got a slice of the federal bailout money for the ailing car industry.

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  • alan says:

    10:53am | 11/07/09

    I refer to a book titled ‘What’s Wrong With the Liberal Party’ by Greg Barnes.When you ‘ve got a poisonous godbotherer right wing getting into dirty tricks without even religous restraint, there’s something WRONG! Read more »

  • Benny says:

    10:35pm | 24/06/09

    No doubt there have always been leaks, but its no wonder that public servants are starting to jack up even more.  Those with any integrity will have been appalled at the performance of some of their “seniors”.  There has been enormous pressure put upon the likes of John Henry (Head… Read more »

 

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