Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition was asked five times this morning what the position of the opposition was on the future of public advertising. I got up to the third. The fourth was:

Journalist: What is your opinion on government advertising?

Abbott: I think …

The fifth was:

Journalist: You’ve got to have an opinion.

Abbott: I think, I think …

And then there was another spray at the Prime Minister—five times in a row from the straight-talking Leader of the Opposition, right on message, always negative, never positive. The Leader of the Opposition was part of a government which expended $420 million, or allocated that for expenditure, on the GST public advertising campaign and $120 million on Work Choices. Can you imagine that? Using the taxpayers’ dollars to take away from working people proper wages and proper conditions. What we are doing through this campaign is explaining—

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