A weapons supplier with more than $200 million in federal deals has emerged as one of the best-connected companies in federal politics.
A weapons supplier with more than $200 million in federal deals has emerged as one of the best-connected companies in federal politics, with former Labor and Liberal ministers helping it gain a central position in a massive push to build a guided-missile industry.
Company founder Robert Nioa named Pyne and Feeney to an advisory board at the end of 2020 to help expand the family business, and followed this with a restructure in January 2023 to install Pyne as chairman of the group board and Feeney as a director, alongside former soldier Mark Donaldson, VC, and others.
She donated another $99,996 to her father’s party in the year to June 2023 and disclosed it within the deadline.The Nioa Family Trust separately donated $63,500 to the Liberal National Party in the year to June 2022. Defence Minister Richard Marles has set up checks on procurement so that probity officials ensure that contract decisions are fair, but the Auditor-General last month
“Advisory Board members do not lobby on behalf of the company. Nioa has full-time employees who interface with government at an executive and departmental level,” he said. Other political insiders have also signed up as board members for defence companies, with former Liberal senator Arthur Sinodinos chairing the board at Queensland company Hypersonix Launch Systems.
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