Farewell, Stuart Robert. We hardly knew ye.
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Stuart Robert's 2012 Speech Defending Gold Coast Property Developers
In 2012, Stuart Robert delivered a speech defending Gold Coast property developers Sunland. Large parts of the speech reportedly were written by a lobbyist for the company. After that speech, the lobbyist who co-wrote it later donated almost $140,000 to Queensland's Liberal National Party and as Stuart Robert Fundraising Foundation. Hoseftle made these donations while her company, her lobbying firm, was collapsing. And at the time, owed almost half a million dollars to creditors, including $355,000 to the Australian Taxation Office.
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