Firepower: The most spectacular fraud in Australian history

The most spectacular fraud in Australian history

By: Gerard Ryle

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Paperback | 1 May 2009 | Edition Number 1

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This is one of the greatest business scams in modern Australian commercial history - and it doesn't even involve the mining industry. Its essential ingredients are a highly suss businessman' who left his creditors stranded in NZ a decade ago and a magic pill that is supposed to increase fuel efficiency (and has been conclusively debunked for many years). The Australian taxpayer has supported thi

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
Prologue: The joke	p. ix
Perpetual motion	p. 1
Choosing sides	p. 17
Abracadabra	p. 29
Big concepts	p. 41
Wanting to Helieve	p. 55
A new beginning	p. 69
Foreign shores	p. 81
Gaining credibility	p. 93
The emperor's new clothes	p. 105
Little helpers	p. 117
Mr Big	p. 129
Changing the guard	p. 141
The big distraction	p. 155
Oranges and lemons	p. 165
Raining money	p. 177
Escape routes	p. 191
Behind the curtain	p. 205
The money pit	p. 219
Epilogue	p. 237
Sources	p. 249
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