Things got even bleaker for the lobbying industry in NSW this week, after the Assembly passed the Lobbying of Government Officials Bill. Here's Premier O'Farrell answering a question on notice from Opposition Leader Robertson later in the day:
"But I do have some absolute bad news for people in this House and outside this House, for businesses in this State, and anyone else who believes that by employing a lobbyist they are going to get better access to my Government or get an inside run on a decision, a tender or anything else, that they are wasting their money. Those days are over. There will never again be a Hawker Britton operating in this State, an organisation like that established by those closest to the Labor Party and for which the former Government was charged at times—and I will come back to that in another question time—money and resources that ultimately found their way into the election campaigns of State and Federal Labor. It was a complete and utter scam on the taxpayers of this State.
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