I'm in no way defending what ever he did.
But what ever he did, pales into insignificance compared with the awb kickbacks to saddam hussein .
For a purported democracy, the answers are important. The Australian Government was legally obliged to prevent any person from paying cash to Iraq, but the AWB was not stopped from paying Saddam $290 million in less than four years.
To put that in perspective, Melbourne developer George Herscu got five years in prison for paying a bribe of $100,000 to former Queensland transport minister Russ Hinze.
