Lindsay Tanner (Melbourne, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

These questions are under active consideration at the moment. I would expect that we would be resolving those matters in the near future. Responsibility has been moved to within my department. There has been very little significant activity on the government advertising front since the election, as you are probably aware. In fact, a number of the budget savings measures that we have taken included previously budgeted advertising measures. These questions that the member for Dickson has raised are under active consideration at the moment and I expect will be resolved in the relatively near future. The member for Dickson will find out when the rest of Australia finds out. We will announce in due course the detail of the new arrangements, but they are under active consideration at the moment.

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