Emails show a controversial consulting company received behind-the-scenes support from Queensland MP Stuart Robert.
An American company paid controversial consulting firm Synergy 360 to gain behind-the-scenes support from Liberal MP Stuart Robert to lobby a parliamentary committee that oversees a key anti-corruption agency in the hope it would back the US firm’s technology.
The help offered to Unisys preceded many of the Services Australia and the National Disability Insurance Agency contracts awarded to companies linked to Synergy 360 that were examined in the government reports published on Friday. Robert returned to the federal ministry in August 2018 and was promoted to the cabinet and the government services portfolio in May 2019.
Unisys was seeking to sell LineSight to the federal government in a deal that would have earned it millions of dollars and Synergy 360 a success fee. Emails reveal that Synergy 360 and Unisys believed the meeting with Robert was being held in order “to trial committee briefing” and that Unisys prepared a draft of its LineSight committee presentation for Robert to examine.
In response to an email from a Synergy executive describing how Synergy made $100,000 in its first four months of operating, Milo wrote on October 21, 2017: “I thought we wanted a mil in the first year. Roll on LineSight.” The leaked documents describe how, on November 30, 2017, Unisys delivered a briefing on LineSight to the parliamentary committee.Shorten challenged Robert in question time to explain what occurred during his time as a cabinet minister given the questions over contracts at Services Australia and the National Disability Insurance Agency.
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