By Ben Schneiders, Sumeyya Ilanbey and Royce Millar
Controversial “preference whisperer” Glenn Druery faces new probity concerns after landing a taxpayer-funded role working for state upper house Liberal Democrats MP David Limbrick while running his own lucrative cash-for-votes business.
Mr Druery’s business brings micro parties together in a bloc to preference each other and leapfrog better-supported parties. The practice helped Mr Limbrick get elected at the 2018 poll with just 0.8 per cent of the primary vote…
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Reason Party leader Fiona Patten said Mr Limbrick’s hiring of Mr Druery “doesn’t pass the pub test”.
“We know Mr Druery is running a business that makes its profit from preference dealing. So it does seem strange for him to be employed directly by one crossbencher,” she said on Tuesday.
“I am not sure that the people of Victoria would be pleased to hear that a senior parliamentary adviser to a Victorian upper house MP is working from a yacht on Sydney Harbour.”
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