Independent MP Monique Ryan has introduced a private members’ bill aimed at enforcing a code of conduct around lobbying. The bill includes a crackdown on ministers and public servants going to work for lobbyists in their portfolio areas. ‘In November 2023, the voluntary register included 703 third-party lobbyists; 40% of those were former politicians, ministerial advisers or senior public servants,’ Ryan said. ‘They were profiting from their knowledge and the networks gained from their time spent here in service to the public and funded by taxpayers.’
The bill will include a three-year ban on lobbying by former ministers and senior ministerial advisers in their previous government fields
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