Monday, January 30, 2006
AWB bribes to Saddam
The Australian Wheat Board made kickback payments of $300 million to Iraq and breached a United Nations Security Council resolution. The Government didn't know a thing about it ... hmmm, ok, they say so, so it must be true ...
Update: 1 Feb 2006. Opposition leader Mr Beazley promises that the Government will be subjected to the "most aggressive parliamentary interrogation this government has faced in its 10 long years in office," Read Wheat for weapons' onslaught (SMH). In his speach, Mr Beazley said ""In the coming weeks we are going to expose this government for what it has become, for what long term governments drunk with power descend into - arrogance, out of touch and with a sole commitment to self-preservation. So self-obsessed they've forgotten what government is supposed to be." Ouch. Go Kim!
Update 2 Feb 2006. I wonder if the Government still insist they knew nothing, after an "AWB executive discovered the company had been paying a "service fee" that was a kickback to the Iraqi regime while he was employed by the Howard government in Baghdad." View the full article on the SMH site.
Related links:
We knew nothing of bribes: Howard
US senators call for AWB ban
Update: 1 Feb 2006. Opposition leader Mr Beazley promises that the Government will be subjected to the "most aggressive parliamentary interrogation this government has faced in its 10 long years in office," Read Wheat for weapons' onslaught (SMH). In his speach, Mr Beazley said ""In the coming weeks we are going to expose this government for what it has become, for what long term governments drunk with power descend into - arrogance, out of touch and with a sole commitment to self-preservation. So self-obsessed they've forgotten what government is supposed to be." Ouch. Go Kim!
Update 2 Feb 2006. I wonder if the Government still insist they knew nothing, after an "AWB executive discovered the company had been paying a "service fee" that was a kickback to the Iraqi regime while he was employed by the Howard government in Baghdad." View the full article on the SMH site.
Related links:
We knew nothing of bribes: Howard
US senators call for AWB ban
# posted by MarkM @ 11:01 PM 
