The Murdoch media game-changer - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The connections, deals, endorsements, donations and cross-fertilisation should now be retrospectively examined. For instance, why shouldn't former federal communications minister Graham Richardson be called to appear before a parliamentary inquiry to discuss the millions of dollars he was paid by the Packer family to lobby and comment after leaving parliament?

via abc.net.au

Why would not Graham Richardson be allowed to sell his expertise, connections and experience of politics, to the highest bidder, in a free market and make a living out of it. Is all monedy dirty money. Where is this person comming from? This paragraph looks like an attack on free market theory as applied to social interactions so I would expect a reply from some of the luney free marketeers out there. Is this a call to strictly regulate the economic behaviour of professionals or only professionals in the practice of politics? What now springs to mind is the pseudo-monopolistic behaviour of all professions with their barriers to entry (high cost of qualification etc.) and whether these need to be regulated.