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Wheat Marketing in Transition: The Transformation of the Australian Wheat Board

Wheat Marketing in Transition: The Transformation of the Australian Wheat Board

Botterill, Linda Courtenay

Hardcover

Series: Environment & Policy, Book 53

Environmental StudiesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 9400728034
ISBN13: 9789400728035
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jan 6 2012
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This detailed account tells the background story of a privatised monopoly whose sharp practices embroiled a national government in scandal and shocked a nation that prides itself on the strength of its institutions. AWB Limited, the former Australian Wheat Board that in the 1990s was sold into the private sector, paid more than $US200m in kickbacks to the pariah regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, exploiting the provisions of the United Nations' Oil for Food program by inflating the price of the wheat it sent there to disguise the pay-offs that secured the contracts. The ensuing uproar threatened the careers of key cabinet ministers in the Howard government and contributed to the rise and subsequent election victory of the Australian Labor Party's Kevin Rudd.

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