Fairfax Media was in good company yesterday as it tried to hide a sharp profit downgrade under the cloak of the Federal Budget.
AWB
AWB supported Australian consumers
Do not fail to understand that it was the AWB’s single desk monopoly which made it possible for Australia to have a wheat industry without subsidisation to match our competitors. It is a very, very sad day to see it go, writes Ted O’Brien.
AWB troglodytes still fighting for the single desk
The board of former monopoly wheat marketer AWB Ltd has dramatically split, writes Stephen Mayne.
Tips and rumours
The ABC News site has linked this document to its story about US wheat farmers failing to get a lawsuit up against AWB over the impacts of the “Trucking Fees” affair. This would have to be the funniest thing ever on the AWB website - a document in which a US judge spells out the […]
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No charges laid yet over AWB. How convenient!
This Saturday marks the first anniversary of the completion of the Cole Report into the AWB kickbacks scandal, which recommended criminal charges be laid against 12 people, including 11 former AWB managers. But nothing has happened. No charges have been laid, writes Alex Mitchell.
The campaign issues that aren’t
As the Coalition and Labor charge into the election battle on the trusty steeds of Housing Affordability, Education and Working Families, Crikey runs a runs an eye over the form of the top five issues the parties have not made loud announcements about.
