Former senator Nick Xenophon and his business partner Mark Davis have drawn heat from both sides of politics after it was announced their legal and advisory firm has brought in Huawei as a client. But the two are hardly the first agents from the worlds of politics and journalism to take a job spruiking for the Chinese technology giant.
Indeed, it has been a veritable conga line.
In 2009 Huawei Technologies employed its first non-Chinese background public relations operative Jeremy Mitchell. Mitchell had previously been editor of Telstra’s long-defunct discussion forum “Now We Are Talking” and was a staffer for Tony Abbott in the early 2000s.
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