Rudd will seek the ratification of Kyoto as soon as he can.
The AWB is the Australian Wheat Board. In 2005, it was revealed that the AWB had paid bribes to Saddam Hussein’s government in Iraq in order to gain wheat contracts there.
Some people would like to claim that the government was involved, but there’s no real evidence of that.
Bad time to go leftist with all that’s out and about these days, but I guess there’s never really a good time for it.
I’m really just more nervous about our own upcoming tussle now too.
Maxine McKew (former ABC journalist who ran against Howard for Labor in Bennelong) is speaking. Looks really pleased with herself - she is currently ahead in Bennelong.
“This has been an amazing night. A wonderful night for Labor. A fabulous, I hope transforming moment for the country. Now something may have happened in the last twenty minutes, but when I last looked at the figures, Bennelong was on a knife edge. The result is not clear, but what a wonderful campaign this has been.”
Nothing really interesting here. I thought she might be about claim she’d won, which would be premature, but she seems to know the numbers aren’t clear yet.