Despite the former premier citing burnout for quitting politics, McGowan’s new jobs seem to all put him at the centre of the action.
More interesting: his apparent ease about the revolving door between government and that state’s mining giants.
“It doesn’t worry me … From the point of view of being the commissioner, I haven’t seen any particular misconduct risk in politicians leaving parliament and getting work in the private sector,” he said.that are indisputably directly adjacent to his government’s work. There’s the role with BHP, which has been throwing its weight around against the federal government’s IR overhaul. There’s the advisory board position with APM, the’s Mineral Resources which should put him on the radar.
“We want to make sure we get best bang for our buck out of that.” And could having a former hero premier on the payroll help open a door or two? Hey, it couldn’t hurt. The last to score an exemption by the offshore export ban was the Waitsia gas project, involving Japan’s Mitsui conglomerate and theNow McGowan’s working for Ellison, who is showing leg to investors about another possible exemption to that same government policy which is supposed to be aimed at protecting the gas-dependent state’s large consumers and residents from a shortfall.
Firms across the country hire ex-politicians for the express purpose of leveraging their political influence. External lobbyists make a point of stressing it, their CVs a lengthy recitation of whose offices they worked with and whose briefs they used to write. But hey, maybe Mark’s just a real riot around the office.is Rear Window columnist, based in the Sydney newsroom.
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