Anne McEwen (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Is the minister aware of the Prime Minister’s view in 1995, when he said:

In a desperate attempt to find an election life raft, the Prime Minister is beginning an unprecedented propaganda blitz using taxpayers’ money.

Can the minister confirm that the cost of the ‘unprecedented propaganda blitz using taxpayers’ money’ in the year leading up to the 2007 election will be more than $500 million? Why should taxpayers have to spend half a billion dollars of their money on the Prime Minister’s ‘election life raft’?