Independent journalist Michael West says the LNP’s third term has seen PM Scott Morrison “stack his office with lifelong pro-coal lobbyists who now, after so many years of banging on the door, are able to formulate policy directly.”

Michaelwest.com.au lists:

• Brendan Pearson, Senior Advisor for International Trade and Investment, ex-CEO of the Mineral Council of Australia (MCA), and former Vice President of Government Relations for Peabody Coal.

• John Kunkel, Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, former Deputy CEO of MCA

• Yaron Finkelstein, Prime Minister’s Principal Private Secretary, former CEO of Crosby Textor

• Andrew Hirst, Liberal Party campaign director, Crosby Textor alumni

• Isaac Levido, Deputy Liberal Party campaign director, Crosby Textor alumni

• James McGrath, LNP Senator for Queensland, Crosby Textor alumni

• Stephanie Wawn, Senior Advisor to Morrison, former manager for CapitalHill Advisory

• Matthew Fynes-Clinton, Speech-Writer, former deputy chief of staff and editor of The Courier Mail

• Andrew Carswell, Press Secretary, formerly chief of staff at The Daily Telegraph

• Thomas Adolph, Advisor, formerly with The Australian

For more information regarding the #RevolvingDoors between the mining industry and government see the report below, which includes a video co-produced with Greenpeace Australia:

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