Govt a 'willing partner' in AWB cover-up

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A federal Labor MP claims to have proof the Howard Government colluded with grain trader AWB to hide the kickbacks paid to the former Iraqi regime.

Victorian MP Kelvin Thomson says documents he has obtained under freedom of information show the Government tried to keep the United States from investigating the payment of kickbacks through the wheat trade with Iraq.

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Mr Thomson says the Government knew what was going on.

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"It was involved in the cover-up up to its eyeballs, and colluded with AWB in preventing the truth about the kickbacks from becoming public."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1681806.htm