Steve Fielding (Victoria, Family First Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the following matters be referred to the Finance and Public Administration References Committee for inquiry and report by 30 June 2010:

(a)

whether the Rudd Government’s tax reform advertising campaign is an outrageous abuse of taxpayers’ dollars;

(b)

whether the Rudd Government should be allowed to spend millions of dollars in advertising a new tax that has not been approved by parliament;

(c)

whether the Special Minister of State and Cabinet Secretary (Senator Ludwig) acted appropriately in exempting the tax reform advertising campaign from the Guidelines on Information and Advertising Campaigns by Australian Government Departments and Agencies; and

(d)

what further provisions are necessary to strengthen the controls on government advertising to prevent taxpayers’ dollars being used for electioneering purposes in the future.

Question agreed to.

Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—Mr Deputy President, I ask that the Greens support for that motion be recorded.