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Sep 17^th, 2018 at 9:17pm

A couple of related articles on the close links that lobbyists have to political parties.

Top Nationals pair hold senior roles at big-business lobby firms

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Katrina Hodgkinson and Larry Anthony – as well key Labor and Liberal figures – are part of an industry with little oversight

Australia's lax lobbying regime the domain of party powerbrokers

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Private interests are represented by ex-politicians and staffers in a system with no independent enforcement

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juliar Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 22966	Re: Lobbyists' close ties to political parties Reply #1 - Sep 18^th, 2018 at 7:49am Wow Gee Whiz!!! And the unions control every aspect of the Labor Party. And just think for all those six sick years of Labor's Socialist stupidity they ignored the Nursing Home crisis AND they ignored the BANKING ISSUES - Labor are such slack useless incompetents.
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Its time Gold Member Offline Boot libs out Posts: 25639 Gender:	Re: Lobbyists' close ties to political parties Reply #2 - Sep 18^th, 2018 at 9:00am The two most powerful figures in the National party executive simultaneously hold senior roles with lobbying firms that push the interests of big business, including banks, oil and coal companies, payday lenders and the multinational contractor Serco. Well well well
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juliar Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 22966	Re: Lobbyists' close ties to political parties Reply #3 - Sep 18^th, 2018 at 9:09am Bit of FAKE MAIL SPAMMING from the neurotic attention seeking Polly Waffle VIRUS.
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Reply #4 - Sep 18^th, 2018 at 9:57am

Its time wrote on Sep 18^th, 2018 at 9:00am:

The two most powerful figures in the National party executive simultaneously hold senior roles with lobbying firms that push the interests of big business, including banks, oil and coal companies, payday lenders and the multinational contractor Serco.

Well well well

The National Integrity Commission will soon sort these crooks out.

I wonder why the Coalition are opposed to a NIC? What else are they hiding?

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Reply #5 - Sep 19^th, 2018 at 9:18am

Lobbyist register has 'ridiculous' gaps that fail to track former premiers

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Transparency experts warn Australia’s regime remains opaque and far too narrow in its scope

Australia’s “ridiculous” lobbying transparency regime fails to recognise a former state premier, deputy premier, and chief minister as former government officials.

The federal lobbyist register provides the only real window into the opaque world of lobbying, aiming to give the public an idea of which lobbyists have been hired by corporate interests to influence government decisions.

One of its most important functions is to flag former members of government who are now lobbying for private interests, a requirement that recognises the added power they wield in accessing and lobbying decision-makers.

But experts have warned that the transparency regime is far too narrow. Currently, former federal opposition MPs or staffers, state premiers or ministers, and senior party officials are not counted as “former government representatives”.

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