Alan Tudge (Aston, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

and that they are putting $107 million directly into these hospitals. It is nothing of the sort. These are misleading, deliberately deceptive ads. They are highly political and they should rightly be paid for by the ALP and not by the taxpayer.

I have written to the Auditor-General in relation to this, and I am very pleased that the Auditor-General is going to be taking this matter up and investigating the appropriateness of this funding used towards political purposes. It costs about $70,000 every time these ads are placed in the metropolitan papers. That is the cost of a nurse for a year, which the government is wasting on these political ads. The ALP should be paying for them and not the taxpayer. (Time expired)

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