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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. ....
Suit filed against anti-smoking group over links to Big Tobacco Several accusations have been made by the former anti-smoking foundation’s director of social media. By AFP Friday 15 Jan 2021, 9:40 PM Jan 15th 2021, 9:40 PM 33,335 Views 15 Comments Image: Shutterstock/MeskPhotography Image: Shutterstock/MeskPhotography A FORMER EMPLOYEE has filed a suit against the Smoke-Free World foundation, charging she was fired after raising concerns the non-profit was taking orders from tobacco companies, including promoting teen vaping. In the whistleblower suit filed in New York earlier this week, the foundation’s former director of digital and social media, Lourdes Liz, maintains she was wrongfully sidelined and subsequently fired after raising questions about its ties to “Big Tobacco”. ....