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Australia’s political lobbying regime is broken and needs urgent reform
Recent jobs taken by former senior ministers Julie Bishop and Christopher Pyne have brought on ire of the...
The testimony before the inquiry has been extraordinary: not just for what was said, but for what wasn’t — Australia’s lobbying laws are almost totally ineffective.
- George Rennie
- The Conversation
The Senate’s reaction reflects a wider sense in the electorate that elected officials may be putting their own interests ahead of the nation’s.
As a result, trust in government and its institutions has been falling.
Moreover, Bishop and Pyne’s example reflects an…