Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I repeat: Mr Warwick Smith said about Mr Fassina that he was an exceptionally good analyst, and he went on to say: ‘I was very impressed with him and will be a strong referee for him.’ But the hypocrisy of those on the other side! They had nothing to say when Richard Alston’s former adviser became the Channel 10 lobbyist, when Richard Alston’s former chief of staff became the Telstra lobbyist, when Richard Alston’s former staffer became the Nine and now the News Ltd lobbyist, when Richard Alston’s former chief of staff, Paul Fletcher, became the Optus lobbyist, or when Helen Coonan’s former media adviser, Jane McMillan, went to work at SBS—