NATIONAL AFFAIRS Nick Minchin tells ADM to try again for GrainCorp*

If Australia’s iconic wheat single-selling desk was dismantled because of corrupt practices by AWB Ltd, then it surely follows that Treasurer Joe Hockey should reject Nick Minchin’s recent proposal that United States grains giant ADM should make a new bid for Australia’s GrainCorp. The grain-growers’ single desk was dismantled after AWB Ltd was found culpable in the oil-for-food scandal, which involved kickbacks to the former Iraqi dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. …

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