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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...

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...