Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I support this motion because I have real concerns, and have consistently had real concerns, about governments, Liberal and Labor, using taxpayer funds for advertising purposes—effectively, party political ads. Just because the Howard government was, I think, pretty outrageous in the way it went about things, particularly in relation to the Work Choices ads, does not make it right that this government is proposing to do the same thing, which many would see as party political.