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Lobbyists will be lobbyists...

The entire influence-peddling industry is tying itself in knots over the Coaldrake review in Queensland.

Writing (turgidly) in The Australian on Thursday, former Queensland Labor secretary Cameron Milner vouched for Professor Peter Coaldrake‘s integrity review of the Queensland government as “compelling reading” and reckoned “Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk should be lauded for committing to implementing the review’s recommendations in their entirety and to the letter.”

This is audacious theatre given one of Palaszczuk’s first responses to Coaldrake’s final report was to ban Milner from lobbying her government for the next three years.

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Joe Aston is the founder of Rampart and the best-selling author of The Chairman’s Lounge: The inside story of how Qantas sold us out. From 2012 to 2023, Joe helmed The Australian Financial Review’s Rear Window column. Email Joe at hello@rampart.news

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