The Prime Minister John Howard has finished giving his evidence to the Cole inquiry after around an hour in the witness box.
Mr Howard told counsel assisting, John Agius, he did not know about a batch of diplomatic cables warning the government AWB could be paying bribes to Saddam Hussein's regime.
In particular, he said he never saw a cable sent three months after the invasion of Iraq.
It warned the Coalition Provisional Authority believed all contracts between Saddan's government under the oil for food programme included kickbacks of up to 19 percent.
Mr Howard agreed with Mr Agius that the cable was a 'very bald statement' but he said he would not have expected his advisers to have shown it to him.