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‘We need incentives’: Technology alone not enough to meet PM’s climate target We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Advertisement Technology alone won’t be enough for the Australian economy to live up to the Prime Minister’s hopes of reaching net zero emissions by 2050, experts say. Giving voice to the most ambitious climate aspirations since forming Coalition government, Scott Morrison on Monday s...

2 February 2021 DroneShield Ltd (ASX:DRO) (“DroneShield” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Pyne & Partners to assist its rapid growth within the Australian defence and government agency market.   Pyne & Partners are led by Christopher Pyne who served as the 54th Australian Defence Minister, and was responsible for delivering the $200 billion build-up of Australia’s military capability, the largest in Australia’s peacetime history, and Adam Howard, with an...

Last modified on Sun 31 Jan 2021 21.39 EST The former defence minister Christopher Pyne’s lobbying firm has been engaged by another weapons manufacturer to “assist its rapid growth within the Australian defence and government agency market”. DroneShield, an Australian Securities Exchange-listed firm that makes anti-drone technology and weaponry, announced on Monday that it had engaged the lobbyist firm Pyne and Partners, led by Pyne and his former chief of staff Adam Howard, to help it wi...

Pyne signs up third defence client Save Share Over his long career in public life, it became abundantly clear that Christopher Pyne loves a good prop – and his final two portfolios, as defence industry then defence minister, provided plenty. And so it isn’t surprising to hear that four years after he posed with Droneshield’s satisfyingly large drone gun at an Abu Dhabi defence expo – the image so delighted DroneShield they put it on the front of a subsequent production repo...

It also won work while Pyne was minister for defence industry, including in 2017 when he said Elbit would help work on a new $1.4bn battlefield command system for the army. Ministers are prohibited from lobbying in relation to anything they had official dealings with for 18 months after they leave office. Pyne’s exclusion period ended on 29 November 2020. His firm began lobbying for Elbit in December, according to Pyne and Partners managing director Adam Howard, who was previously Pyne’s fo...

Australias escalating regulatory risks It is possible there will be a repeat of the Probuild and Worley situations with FIRB approval for the QCLNG Common Facilities deal being followed by a private conversation that sees the deal withdrawn. Jan 14, 2021 – 12.00am Share Foreign investors trying to understand the regulatory rules applied to the purchase of publicly listed and privately owned companies have good reason to be confused. The system is not only opaque it is easily gamed by vested i...

Australians support a low emissions future but have become more concerned about the economy than climate change during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new poll.  JWS Research has released the latest data on Australians views on economic, health and environment priorities, which have shifted since the pandemic hit our shores earlier this year. The data comes after a conservative think tank called for carbon emissions to be dramatically slashed and replaced with renewable energy, clai...

21 December 2020 A Liberal party aligned think thank has called on the Morrison government to offer compensation for coal-fired power stations that agree to close by an agreed deadline, in a move the group says will help manage and even fast-track the inevitable phase-out of coal power. The plan has been put forward by the Blueprint Institute, a relatively new think tank formed by a group with close ties to key moderate Liberal-National party members. The group was founded by a former adviser t...

Nothing opens a door quicker than the words “former defence minister”. Christophe Pyne has been given another line to add to his CV, this time as an adviser to one of the country’s biggest beneficiaries of defence contracts. Brisbane-based NIOA hardly basks in the limelight but it has managed to use its trading platform to become one of the government’s go-to arms dealers. In the last year alone the small arms and ammunition supplier has achieved what many contractors could only dream o...