AWB is the Australian Wheat Board. It got into a scandal, because it was revealed - after the invasion - that they had been doing under the table deals to sell Aust wheat to Iraq in Sadaam’s time.
The US, responding to its own lobby groups, asked Howard to make an enquiry, which he did, and the Labor opposition talked it up a lot as a big scandal. But it is not really something which affects many Australians, day to day.
The AWB issue is one of the things which really divides rural and city areas. In regional Australia, farmers were very angry at the enquiry, and said that the AWB was just doing international trade, and it was unfair, most unfair, after all the support we gave the US in Iraq, that we were being dragged through the mud. And they said Howard should ask for an enquiry into the US and the French firms, and see if he would get it.
City Australians saw it more as the AWB was in the wrong.
There is not much more mileage to get out of it, so I don’t think there will be any more enquiry.
I remember when it was in the news. I didn’t recognize it by the initials, but once it got mentioned it cleared up.
Iirc, at the time, it was being conflated and mishmashed with the French/UN perfidy on the oil for food abomination.