Policy Fiascos, Blame Management and AWB Limited: The Howard Government's escape from the Iraq Wheat Scandal
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McConnell, Allan; Gauja, Anika; Botterill, Linda
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In 1999, the Australian government privatised the statutory Australian Wheat Board and created AWB Limited, transferring the Board's assets and its export monopoly to a grower-controlled company. In 2000, allegations surfaced that AWB Limited had made payments to Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime in order to secure lucrative wheat exports worth $500 million per annum. Such actions violated the terms of the United Nations' Oil-for-Food Programme and became one of the biggest corporate scandals in...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2008 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/17721 |
Source: | Australian Journal of Political Science |
DOI: | 10.1080/10361140802429239 |
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