Lobbyist who provided Morrison’s lump of coal joins PM’s advisory team

Present PM and former Treasurer, Scott Morrison,
 in parliament with his infamous lump of coal

In case there was any doubt about the ties that bind Australia’s top coal lobbyists with the federal Coalition government, former Minerals Council of Australia CEO Brendan Pearson has been tapped as a senior adviser to Scott Morrison.

The appointment, revealed in The Australian on Wednesday, shifts Pearson up in the Coalition pecking order from the office of the minister for finance, Mathias Cormann, to Morrison’s inner sanctum.

It also reunites the Prime Minister with the likely source of the infamous lacquered lump of coal he brandished in Parliament back in 2017, when Pearson still headed up the Minerals Council.

Read the story from RenewEconomy by Sophie Vorrath - “Lobbyist who provided Morrison’s lump of coal joins PM’s advisory team.”