Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Special Minister of State) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Special Minister of State, Senator Faulkner. Paragraph 7.2 of your government’s so-called Lobbying Code of Conduct quite clearly states:

Persons … employed in the Offices of Ministers or Parliamentary Secretaries … shall not, for a period of 12 months after they cease their employment, engage in lobbying activities relating to any matter that they had official dealings with in their last 12 months of employment.

Given that paragraph 7.2 is a stand-alone section and not subject to the exclusions in paragraph 3, do you acknowledge that the appointment of the Prime Minister’s former chief of staff as executive general manager for government and corporate affairs with a major Australia company is a clear breach of the code?