I know the Nats have been canvassing at least one GA business owner as a potential senior Aviation advisor to the minister.
Additionally, the Nat's new federal director Ross Cadell is a pilot (Commercial or PPL I am not sure) trained at Cessnock in the late 80s/early 90s.
Tragedy of it all is that they only seem to realise too late, with an almost-certain election loss only 12 months away.