Property developers in New South Wales have flocked to the lobbying firm of former premier Morris Iemma – political mentor to the current premier Chris Minns – as the government embarks on the most extensive changes to the state’s planning laws in two decades.

Since Minns was elected premier in March 2023, big development companies have signed up to Iemma Patterson Premier Advisory (IPPA), where Iemma and the former Liberal MP Chris Patterson are the principals.

The lobbying firm describes itself as having “an intimate knowledge of the inner workings of government and the bureaucracy that drives the decision making processes in the state”.

The election of the Minns government and its overt policy of encouraging medium- and high-density housing throughout Sydney has proved a bonanza

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