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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Given the minister’s tacit admission that the government will be running a campaign to ‘get the facts out’, I refer the minister to Labor’s 2007 election promise that:

… all government advertising and information campaigns in excess of $250,000 will need to be vetted by the Auditor-General or his designate.

Will the minister guarantee that any campaign will be subject to this process and that the minister will not follow the Treasurer’s example of declaring a national emergency to get around it?