Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Corporate Governance and Responsibility) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Minister, can I again ask you to confirm whether or not the government has authorised additional expenditure on industrial relations advertising? Is $36.5 million the new price tag? Could you advise whether the $36.5 million will include yet another taxpayer funded ad blitz, to the tune of $25,000 an hour, which was seen in stage 1 of this campaign? Minister, why does the government display such contempt for Australian taxpayers? And isn’t this just another example of the Howard government treating taxpayers’ money as its own?