Kickback : inside the Australian Wheat Board scandal (edition 2007)

by Caroline Overington

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Title	Kickback : inside the Australian Wheat Board scandal
Author	Caroline Overington
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Review	This is a book about last year's headlines, but it contains an awful lot of the news that stays news. It's largely a blow-by-blow account of shonky dealings -- Iraq's corruption of the UN's Oil-for-Food program as aided and abetted by a highly reputable Australian company and the subsequent cover-up -- involving hundreds of millions of dollars: illegal, immoral, carefully ignored for as long as possible by lily-white John Howard and shameless Alexander Downer (who seem to have people on staff whose job is to make sure they never actually see faxes, emails, cables and other inconvenient communications. [Longer version at http://homepage.mac.com/shawjonathan/iblog/C1020611578/E20071002173107/index.htm...
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Publication date	2007
Publication	Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2007. 308 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN	9781741751949 / 1741751942
Number of volumes	1
Number of copies	1
Pages	308
Dimensions	21 cm


LC Classification	JZ6373 .O84
Dewey	352.350994 22


Subjects	Administrative responsibility Australia Australia Politics and government Australia. Inquiry into Certain Australian Companies in Relation to the UN Oil-For-Food Programme Australian Wheat Board Corrupt practices Food relief, Australian Corrupt practices Iraq Food relief, Australian Iraq. Corrupt practices Government liability Australia United Nations. Oil-for-Food Program Corrupt practices


Primary language eng	English
Secondary language	(blank)
Original language


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Date acquired	2007-07-29
Summary 1	Kickback : inside the Australian Wheat Board scandal by Caroline Overington (2007)


BCID	XXX-
From where?
Data source	National Library of Australia
Private	No