From the award-winning journalist who first broke the story, here - in forensic detail - is the incredible true story of how the Australian Wheat Board funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars to Saddam Hussein's regime on the eve of the 2003 war.
When the Australian Wheat Board gave over $290 million to Saddam Hussein's brutal regime in order to secure wheat contracts, it was award-winning journalist Caroline Overington who told the world.
Reading like a thriller, 'Kickback' is a blow-by-blow account of what really happened. How did a former government agency, now stand-alone company, manage to climb into bed with a corrupt regime, with which we are at war? How did they defraud the United Nations and its aid program managers? It's hard to believe that no member of the Howard government, no departmental head or employee, no advisor to a minister, knew this corruption was happening. How high up did the knowledge travel? Where and when did the government and departmental oversight occur? A couple of brave whistleblowers and the rage of the Canadian and US wheat farmers eventually blew the lid off the scandal, but what on earth did the AWB executive think it was doing and for how long did they think they could keep on doing it?
This is a tale of monumental proportion. Read 'Kickback' and be appalled.
