The AWB kickbacks inquiry report has been officially presented...

The AWB kickbacks inquiry report has been officially presented to the Governor-General in Sydney.

Commissioner Terence Cole handed over his five-volume report to Major General Michael Jeffery at Admiralty House this afternoon.

The report will not be publicly released until it is tabled in Federal Parliament next week.

Deputy Prime Minister Mark Vaile says he has not seen the report, but he is confident the Government will be cleared of wrong doing.

"We've taken that position from the outset, from the day we entered the Cole inquiry to give evidence and the written submissions we've given ... we've maintained that from the start and we will await to see what Commissioner Cole has to say," he said.

But the Opposition's accountability spokesman, Kelvin Thomson, says the Government has already made sure it does not get the blame for the $300 million in kickbacks paid to deposed dictator Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq.

"There is one reason and one reason only why Commissioner Cole is unlikely to bring down a finding of guilty in relation to the conduct of Howard Government ministers, and that is the rorted terms of reference he has been given by the Howard Government," he said.

Dave R.