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Friday, 12th May, 2006

The Australian keeps plugging away at reporting on the AWB kickbacks even if the masses are not interested. This morning journalist Caroline Overington reports that dozens of senior Australian diplomats have told the Cole inquiry they were aware of allegations that Saddam Hussein had corrupted the UN oil-for-food program but none ordered an investigation.

They believed there was no evidence, wrote Overington, that AWB was involved and AWB denied being corrupt.

What surprises me was that no one in Foreign Affairs ever thought of referring the matter to the Federal Police. After all, paying kickbacks is a criminal offence.