HALLIBURTON AUSTRALIA IMPORTS SLAVE LABOR TO SOUTH AUSTRALIA


Halliburton Australia. has a major part of South Australi business
activities It's Adelaide office was fomerly the company's global
headquarters for infrastruture.

Under the trading name of KBR it is employed by the State government and local councils. It has been involved in construction of the Adelaide-Darwin Railway and the Port River Expressway, and has proposed a development project for Lake Alexandrina.

Halliburton is also employed by the Department Of Foreign Affairs and Trade to carry out international aid contracts on Australia's behalf, and has many defence industry contracts.

In South Australia's outback, Halliburton has been flouting Australia's Industrial Relations laws by employing foreigners at wage levels inappropriate to Australian ethics.

By referring the Advertiser's questions to it's head office in Houston it has revealed where its South Australian activities are truly conducted from.

On evidence of such a flagrant violation of Australian trust, the
ethics involved in all the company's interaction with all levels of
government in South Australia must now be called into question. If companies such as Halliburton want to play in Australia, they must learn to play by Aussie rules.

Given the Australian Government's avoidance and denial of knowledge of Australian bribes paid to the Saddam government of Iraq, it is highly unlikely there will be an
Australian probe into Halliburton's questionable activities.

As Halliburton Australia is a wholly owned US subsidiary its activities in Australia could be subjected to a probe by the US Department of Justice under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

South Australian Trade Minister Micheal Wright has promised a State Government investigation, and says that the Federal government should do the same. Mr Wright added that he would also be looking for possible violations of welfare laws.