There’s been a lot of focus on the role of lobbying in the decision of the Commonwealth and Queensland governments to hand more than $900 million to US company PsiQuantum — a deal the auditor-general may now take a look at. PsiQuantum has two lobbyists: long-term Liberal strategists-cum-lobbyists C|T Group, and Brookline Advisory, the Labor-aligned lobbying firm led by veteran Labor advisers Lidija Ivanovski and Gerard Richardson.
Brookline was only established last year and PsiQuantum was — according to the federal lobbyist register — its second client after the University of Tasmania. Another client Brookline gained last year was US gas company Tamboran Resources, which plans an LNG plant at the Middle Arm “Sustainable” Precinct in Darwin — to which, during the 2022 federal election, Labor committed $1.5
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