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Australian Retailers Association cancels secret tobacco contract

Australian Retailers Association cancels secret tobacco contract Share One of the Australia’s largest industry groups has walked away from a contract worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby for e-cigarettes because the money was secretly sourced from Philip Morris International. The Australian Retailers Association’s decision last August to end its relationship with global PR firm Burson Cohn & Wolfe, which had channelled funds from Philip Morris, marks the clearest sign that corporate Australia is distancing itself from Big Tobacco. Australian Retailers Association CEO Paul Zahra was shocked to discover a secret money trail from Philip Morris when he joined the ARA. 

Vaping Australia: The secret money trail behind the push to legalise e-cigarettes

Share By the evening of October 5, Liberal senator Hollie Hughes knew she had the numbers for her biggest political coup – the establishment of a Senate inquiry that she would chair into the e-cigarette industry. After months of wrangling, she was ready to celebrate – over drinks with two British American Tobacco lobbyists. “Oh we do love you @senator hollie,” Michael Kauter, the former deputy federal director of the Nationals, posted on social media that night last year alongside a photo of Hughes in a Canberra restaurant with her arm around him. Kauter’s husband, Professor David Gracey, was on Hughes’ other side. Gracey, who is a renal specialist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, is an adviser to Kauter’s lobbying firm.

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