Eamonn Fitzpatrick, a former media adviser to several Labor premiers and prime ministers, says he ‘self-reported two genuine errors’ and rectified the lobbyist register immediately

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New South Wales ministers have been warned not to meet alone with one of the most prominent lobbyists in the state, Eamonn Fitzpatrick, or his firm after the NSW Electoral Commission placed EJF Advisory on a watchlist for breaches of the lobbying code.

The NSW lobbyist register showed the firm was placed on a watchlist from 13 November 2025 “due to contraventions of the Lobbyists Code of Conduct or the Lobbying of Government Officials Act 2011 (Logo Act)”.

Source: Guardian - World News