No Iraq contracts expected for AWB
IRAQ is “highly unlikely” to buy wheat from Australian exporter AWB this year, although it could resume purchases in 2008, according to reports in English-language newspapers circulating in the Middle East.
Caroline Overington
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Iraq kickbacks not bribes, but tax deductions
THE Australian Taxation Office has declared that the millions of dollars AWB funnelled to Saddam Hussein’s regime in the lead-up to the Iraq war were not bribes, and can therefore be claimed as a tax deduction.
Guarantee a better price than AWB, wheat rivals told
COMPANIES jostling to export Australian wheat will have to prove they can pay growers more than AWB is offering, the Howard Government has warned.
Islander work visas could solve childcare shortage
A BRISBANE entrepreneur wants to bring in women from Fiji, Papua New Guinea and other failing island states to care for the children of affluent Australian parents and do their household chores.
Career mums wary of jobs in regional cities
AN acute shortage of childcare is causing professional women to turn their backs on regional Australia.
Childcare tax break works for women
AUSTRALIA has one of the lowest rates of female workforce participation in the developed world – and the expensive, frustrating, unworkable system of childcare is to blame.
BHP to cut ties with AWB accused
MINING giant BHP Billiton is preparing to sever ties with former executive Norman Davidson Kelly, who was described by the Cole inquiry as having “no commercial morality”.
Cole’s dirty dozen to face jail
ELEVEN former executives of wheat exporter AWB could face criminal charges and jail terms of up to 10 years after the Cole inquiry found they had engaged in an elaborate deception that illegally funnelled $290 million to Saddam Hussein’s regime and cast a shadow over Australia’s international reputation.
PM says nothing to hide in AWB affair
JOHN Howard has angrily rejected claims the Cole inquiry into the Iraq kickbacks scandal has been a whitewash, insisting, “we hid nothing”.
Flugge afraid of jail term he ‘doesn’t deserve’
TREVOR Flugge does not want to go to prison, nor does he believe that he has done anything even remotely likely to send him there.
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