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Chris Ellison defends nepotism at MinRes

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Readers of The West Australian on Thursday morning were the first to hear about Premier Roger Cook’s decision to relax the ban on offshore LNG gas exports – that long lobbied move by the state’s gas industry.

But at the ASX open, the policy still wasn’t official. It took Cook several hours into trading to announce it in Perth, in which time companies such as John Poynton’s Strike Energy had already surged 10 per cent.

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Mark Di Stefano is Rear Window columnist, based in the Sydney newsroom. He previously worked at BuzzFeed, the Financial Times and The Information before joining the Financial Review as a media and tech correspondent. Connect with Mark on Twitter. Email Mark at mark.distefano@afr.com

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