Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

I want to be clear about this. I understand from what the minister is saying that the Ministerial Committee on Government Communications runs the tender process and selects the successful tenderer but that the appropriation that is then used to pay the successful tenderer is a departmental appropriation—that is, the first tranche of the advertising campaign was paid for by the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, but the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations does not play a role in conducting the tender or selecting the successful tenderer. Is that correct?

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