Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The guidelines on campaign advertising apply to advertising information campaigns which involve paid placement of advertisements in the media valued at more than $250,000. The signs in question, it was deemed, do not meet these criteria. The Building the Education Revolution signage was not considered by the interdepartmental committee on communications or by the Australian National Audit Office because the signage was seen as routine advertising for operational activities carried out by a government agency.