Companies who breach lobbying code should be cut off, says Centre Alliance senator Rex Patrick

Katie Burgess
Updated August 23 2019 - 9:25pm, first published 12:00pm

Centre Alliance senator Rex Patrick has backed a call for companies that hire former ministers to lobby within the 18-month cooling off period to be excluded from government tenders, as another of the big four accounting firms moves to distance itself from Ernst and Young's hiring of Christopher Pyne.

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Katie Burgess

Katie Burgess

Federal politics reporter

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