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SBS
12 Apr 2006 - 12:00 AM  UPDATED 22 Aug 2013 - 12:18 PM

A spokesman for the Cole inquiry says Commissioner Terence Cole has received only one application to cross-examine the Prime Minister during his appearance before the inquiry tomorrow.

The application has come from lawyers representing AWB executives.

The inquiry is investigating almost 300-million dollars in kickbacks paid by monopoly wheat exporter AWB to the former Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein.

The Prime Minister, John Howard, has issued a statement saying he's happy to appear before the Inquiry.

He'll be the first prime minister to go before a judicial tribunal since Bob Hawke in 1983.

Commissioner Cole will hand down his decision tomorrow on whether he'll allow the cross-examination.