The four denied they had given this reason. National Mutual also claimed Ms Kinder had authorised the benefit request forms for the payouts. When asked to produce the four forms which could decide the issue, National Mutual simply said they had gone missing. This prompted the Senate committee to recommend that Attorney-General Dean Wells investigate the circumstances surrounding the mysterious loss of these forms. Mr Wells ordered a police investigation which was begun in September 1993 by the state's Fraud and Corporate Crime Squad.
Police say the investigation is still under way.
You have the story from Ann Kern. I had never met the man, he was not part of the union I belonged to. The first I ever laid eyes on him was at the Senate inquiry. Meanwhile, the Queensland government has expressed total confidence in Ms Kinder. Among questions they circulated for the meeting was whether the credit union had paid for barristers to represent credit union officials at the Senate hearing over their private superannuation matters.