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

My question is to Senator Abetz, the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations. I refer the minister to the letter to Australian nurses from Mr Hockey published in newspapers across the nation at the weekend. Can the minister confirm that this full-page advertisement was paid for by Australian taxpayers, not by the Liberal Party? Will the minister now come clean on the full cost of this latest advertising campaign? Can the minister tell Australian taxpayers, who have already footed the bill for $93 million worth of Howard government Work Choices advertising, just how many more advertisements from Mr Hockey the Howard government expects taxpayers to pay for?