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Ten years ago, the Rudd Government introduced the Lobbying Code of Conduct. It was an attempt to regulate the way lobbyists work in Canberra.
It didn’t work – for a lot of reasons. It wasn’t independent, it was full of loopholes, and it couldn’t be legally enforced.
Now’s the time to take another look at the Lobbying Code of Conduct, and fix it.