Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I ask the Prime Minister to confirm the evidence given in Senate estimates today that the cost of this week’s advertising for its industrial relations campaign is $4.1 million, or $585,000 per day, or approximately $25,000 per hour. Prime Minister, what was the budget for the industrial relations campaign that was approved last Thursday by the Ministerial Committee on Government Communications, of which your chief of staff is a member? How is wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ dollars on pre-election PR campaigns compatible with prudent economic management and how is it justifiable to working families who are under pressure?

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