Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

As I said before to the member for Lalor, these budget papers do not include any of the Work Choices expenditure, nor should they. No, I was asked about Work Choices expenditure and a $55 million campaign. Now, of course that would have been reported in the annual report. The current campaign: there is no current campaign at the moment. There has been a campaign in the last few weeks and, as we pointed out, the allocation for that funding came through in the MYEFO, which was tabled in the House in February, and the Labor Party was so outraged about that advertising campaign and the allocation of funding to that advertising campaign that they did not say a word. Now they have got the member for Lingiari trying his best. Now we are scraping it.

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