AWB board favors $1.1B bid from Agrium

Australian grain producer AWB Ltd. has recommended that its shareholders take a buyout offer from Agrium worth nearly $1.1 billion cash, Agrium said Tuesday.

Agrium bids $1.09B for Aussie grain producer AWB

Fertilizer company Agrium offered more than $1 billion for Australian grain producer AWB, its second major buyout attempt in as many years.

Myers: "Australia is rapidly losing control of its food resources.

The teenage AWB youth leader who threatened the life of his ANC counterpart Julius Malema has gone to ground.

Various political formations have conveyed their condolences to the Terre'Blanche family after AWB leader Eugene Terre'Blanche was allegedly killed by his workers over a wage dispute.

The party of the murdered South African white supremacist, Eugene Terreblanche, has retracted a threat to take revenge for his death. AWB spokesman Pieter Steyn said no member of his organisation would engage in any form of violence.

Notorious South African Far-Right leader Eugene Terreblanche was murdered yesterday – hacked to death in his bed by two disgruntled farmworkers.

South Africa's white supremacist leader Eugene Terreblanche was bludgeoned to death by two farm workers Tuesday evening in an apparent dispute over wages, police said.

Now highly unlikely that Oz will pursue criminal charges against the former AWB executives, who helped funnel almost $300 million to Saddam Hussein's regime in breach of United Nations oil for food sanctions.

The Return of the AWB

The right-wing Afrikaner Resistance Movement / Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), has announced its re-activation to combat what it describes as a rapidly-deteriorating situation in South Africa.

Former managers and directors of AWB are yet to discover whether they will face criminal charges over the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal.

HUNDREDS of thousands of Iraqis who lost family members under Saddam Hussein's regime could end up joining a class action against disgraced Australian wheat exporter AWB, a lawyer says.

The federal government's beleaguered wheat export monitor says AWB lied to it for years about a "horrendous" secret agreement that could expose growers to huge liabilities.

Hold the Trial at My Pub

I don't know why those QCs mentioned in The Age are making bold threats to cut Alexander Downer to shreds in the witness box when and if their clients face trial following the release of the report from the Cole Commission.

An inquiry has found Australia's monopoly wheat board paid millions in kicbacks to Suddam Hussein's Iraq Government breaching the United Nations food for aid sanctions

One year before the invasion of Iraq, Australia's then ambassador to the United Nations, John Dauth, confidentially told AWB's former chairman, Trevor Flugge, that the Howard Government would participate in military action with the US to overthrow Saddam Hussein, new AWB document …

A minute from the Australian Wheat Board reveals all.

A federal Liberal backbencher has put up a private member's bill which would strip AWB of its monopoly power to stop wheat exports by other companies. Wilson Tuckey, whose electorate covers much of Western Australia's wheat belt, presented the bill to parliamentary clerks on Thu …

In response to a question on notice from Labor, the Foreign Affairs Minister, Alexander Downer, said his department had spent more than $1.28 million on external legal advice.

Companies and individuals investigated over the Iraq kickbacks scandal have been sent notices detailing the adverse findings against them, including recommendations for criminal charges.

A judge has ordered the country's wheat exporter to hand over hundreds of documents to the Cole inquiry into the oil-for-food scandal, including material suggesting it "deliberately and dishonestly" tried to defraud the United Nations.

The Australian federal government is facing evidence from all angles that it, and its departments, had knowledge of the Australian Wheat Board's kick-back scheme to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein

When will Johnnie resign?