The cabinet remains incomplete, with no defense minister as the security issues become more serious.
Higginson is understood to have refused to sign off on the accounts for several months because of incomplete information, but the prime minister, Tony Abbott, has said that since Higginson has now signed off on the party's accounts the issue is "a storm in a teacup".
As investigators here today began poring over the wreckage of a Siberian Airlines jet that crashed into the Black Sea, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was said to have called Ukraine's insistence that it had not accidentally shot the jet down "incomplete," and ordered his defense minister to seek more details from Ukraine's military.
Amid conflicting, contradictory and incomplete information, David Cameron, the British prime minister, warned of further bad news to come.
Mark Hoban, the employment minister, dismissed the report as incomplete and failing to take into account the mess that was inherited from the last government.
"The overwhelming majority of Kashmiris believe the place is really incomplete without its diversity," said Omar Abdullah, the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
Ministers of successive governments have repeatedly given misleading or incomplete information about the CIA's use of Diego Garcia.
But the Education Ministry had not provided the data to the prime minister's office because, it said, the information was incomplete.
At the Leveson inquiry, Brooks disclosed 185 meetings with prime ministers, ministers and party leaders while apologising that her records were incomplete.
He suggested institutional reform was required to prevent a prime minister pursuing unilateral military action, without UN backing, on "an incomplete and false prospectus".
