The former Liberal minister has made a killing under Labor governments at home. Now he’s hoping for a repeat in the UK.
As CBD has opined in columns past, the red wall of Labor governments in Canberra and across the mainland hasn’t stopped former Liberal defence ministerThe professional South Australian has taken to his new life as a defence industry lobbyist with smooth entrepreneurial zeal, and his firm, Pyne and Partners, is now the largest Australian-owned government relations operation in the country, making a killing on the back of the AUKUS pact.
It might be decades before we get those nuclear submarines in the water, but it’s good to know someone’s winning in the meantime. Anyway, now the company is in its young adult phase, Pyne is ready to do the “London thing,” opening an office in the British capital this week., who’s recently been working in Paris with the firm’s French clients, is set to run the show, while former Labor staffer turned P&P partnernext week. And for lobby shops, particularly foreign upstarts hoping to make a bit of hay, there is no time more fertile than a change in government.“We’ve led the charge in Washington DC and Canberra.
The big game wasn’t a huge selling point for local personalities if the guest list for the NRL’s VIP enclosure was anything to go by. Westpac bossgot to see a quintessential local cultural experience.CBD has long kept a close watch on our media colleagues crossing to the dark side and going to work in politics.
Issa’s departure means the path from Guardianista to foot-soldier for the progressive side of politics looks increasingly well-trodden.Frankly, given the cost-of-living crisis and the Graun’s infamously stingy approach to staff remuneration, we don’t blame them for moving on.
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