Gary Humphries (ACT, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Materiel) Share this | Hansard source

When you deal with your addiction to donations, Senator Feeney, we will deal with ours.

The coalition has a proven track record with regard to tobacco control and reducing the rate of smoking in Australia. In fact, it was Sir Robert Menzies who first introduced a voluntary tobacco advertising code for television back in 1966. In turn, it was the Fraser Liberal government in 1976 that first implemented a ban on the advertising of tobacco products on TV and radio. That was a mandatory ban. Dr Michael Wooldridge, the health minister in the Howard government in June 1997, announced what was at the time the biggest ever national advertising campaign against smoking. It had a federal government spend of $7 million over two years to limit—