Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Senator Wong. I refer the minister to her statement of 16 July 2007, which was made in conjunction with then Deputy Leader of the Opposition Julia Gillard and in which she said, ‘Labor will end the abuse of taxpayer funded government advertising.’ I also refer the minister to comments made yesterday by the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency that his department is ‘examining a number of options for public communications’. Has the government invited tenders or contracted an agency to undertake a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign in support of your carbon tax plans?