Business of Government: Lobbying about lobbyists, the administrative state, and comings and goings

Business of Government: Lobbying about lobbyists, the administrative state, and comings and goings
Anne Tolley, Chris Finlayson and Helen Clark have been thinking about lobbying rules. (Image: NZME)
Ian Llewellyn
Lobbying about lobbyistsThere have been more calls for greater regulation and transparency around the lobbying sectors and how they operate.It follows ongoing stories about potential ministerial conflicts of interest and the somewhat opaque rules about managing those conflicts.Every politician and official has conflicts of interest. They are not blank canvases, and all have lives; they do not emerge from some cocoon and enter the office cleansed of their pasts.Despite this, it always seems to come as a shock to those on the right that politicia...

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