Andrew Liveris, of "subsidise gas for plastics and chemicals" infamy, is a director of the Saudi Arabian oil company. New FOI docs show his work for NCC was secretly backed by a lobbying firm that was working for the Saudi govt. theguardian.com/australia-news…
Liveris is also on the board of Worley Parsons, Australia's largest oil and gas services company. The head of the lobbying firm, Dragoman, was also registered as a lobbyist for Worley.
The head of Dragoman, Tom Harley, used to chair the Menzies Institute, the main Liberal Party think tank.
Liveris also has a position at Dragoman.
Dragoman is mostly a private political strategy and lobbying firm, but have some public policy commentaries. Including many calling for more gas, and interestingly some by others who went on to appointment at the NCC, including Halton and Combet.
Here are the commentaries, and the website, via the Wayback machine, as the Dragoman website seems curiously offline web.archive.org/web/2019091909…
"A dragoman was an interpreter, translator, and official guide between Turkish, Arabic, and Persian-speaking countries and polities of the Middle East and European embassies, consulates, vice-consulates and trading posts." From 13C onwards
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragoman
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