The Cole Inquiry hearings resumed on 22 August (transcripts).
The hearings relate to documents to which a claim for privilege by AWB has been lost in the Federal Court (the apology or contrition statement) or for which the claimed privilege in relation to those documents had either been waived or was no longer claimed or had originally been claimed in error.
Even with reference to contemporaneous documents Counsel assisting is still having difficulty in ascertaining what AWB executives actually knew about the payments.
How would your organisation look if its day to day activity was minutely examined? At the least, AWB's record keeping was disorganised.
UPDATE: Hearings adjourned on 24 August and will resume on 30 August.
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