I once sang Love Is in the Air to Labor’s Stephen Conroy – here’s what it taught me about Canberra lobbying

Then senator Stephen Conroy in May 2016. He went to work for Responsible Wagering Australia, a gambling lobby, when he left politics. Photograph: Sam Mooy/AAP

Parliament House can be a strange place to work.

In one particularly memorable moment of my seven years in the building I found myself passionately singing Love Is in the Air to the Labor powerbroker Stephen Conroy.