House debates Questions without Notice
Advertising Campaigns
Peter Garrett Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Heritage
2:17 pm
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Peter Garrett Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Heritage
It is good to know we have got some fans opposite! My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister’s answer yesterday in relation to government plans for a mail-out to all eight million Australian households of a climate change brochure and a personal letter from the Prime Minister when he stated:
No such decision has been made by me or, to my knowledge, by the government.
And:
I was very careful in the answer I gave.
Prime Minister, didn’t the Ministerial Committee on Government Communications sign off on this climate change community information and education campaign on 16 April and allocate $176,000 for market research by Blue Moon Research and Planning Pty Ltd?
John Howard Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister
I simply repeat what I said yesterday: the government has not decided on any campaign.