Firm mines Labor links to lobby PM
Josh Gordon; 29/6/08
A company that provides strategic political advice to the Prime Minister’s office is also being paid by mining and energy companies to lobby the Government as it prepares to unveil its greenhouse strategy. Hawker Britton, overwhelmingly made up of former Labor staffers and party insiders, is working for at least six companies that would be nervously watching the Government’s emissions-trading deliberations. The company’s website says it has played a “central strategic role in every Australian state and federal election campaign since it was founded in 1997″. It also has a “national alliance” with Labor’s pollster of choice, UMR.
See: http://www.theage.com.au/national/firm-mines-labor-links-to-lobby-pm-20080628-2yjy.html