Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance and Administration) Share this | Hansard source

I am not aware of any further decisions of the government to extend this advertising campaign, but should it be then I am sure that the people and the parliament will be properly informed of any additional resources put into this campaign. But I do think Senator Wong ought to take account of what her own Labor governments do around the country. I was surprised to see, in the Adelaide Advertiser of 9 June, this full page ad: ‘Building a healthy future for South Australia.’ What have we got here? The smiling face of Labor Premier Mike Rann, extolling the virtues of his Labor budget! Look at it! It is incredible—the hypocrisy of this lot in attacking us for our advertising when they have six state Labor governments absolutely blowing their budgets! They are now actually in deficit as a result of the extraordinary spending they conduct, much of which is on their own party advertising.