A Department of Finance document indicates there has been $136 million spent on advertising for government departments in 2019 alone.
Senator Penny Wong has grilled the government over its spending on advertisements during a Senate estimates hearing, which Labor says has been an extraordinarily high amount.
Senator Wong says Australians are online, watching television and listening to the radio, ‘and they are being inundated by ads that they are paying for from a desperate government. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann says, ‘just because there’s an election around the corner doesn’t mean that we all of a sudden have to go into conspiracy theories.’ Image: News Corp Australia
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Labor ceased listing medicines on PBS because it was poor: Cormann | Sky News AustraliaA would-be Labor government could run out of money and put every Australian at risk, Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has warned in a critical analysis of the Labor Leader’s budget reply.\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, moments after Bill Shorten’s speech, Mr Cormann looked to the past and pointed out that Labor once stopped listing recommended medicines on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme because it ran out of money.\n\nHe says now is not the time to go back to the unaffordable and ‘discredited ways’ of Labor, highlighting the Coalition’s track record of delivering $10 billion worth of new medicines on the scheme.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n\n
Read more »
Labor grills Cormann over taxpayer-funded ads | Sky News AustraliaSenator Penny Wong has grilled the government over its spending on advertisements during a Senate estimates hearing, which Labor says has been an extraordinarily high amount. \n\nSenator Wong says Australians are online, watching television and listening to the radio, ‘and they are being inundated by ads that they are paying for from a desperate government.\n\nFinance Minister Mathias Cormann says, ‘just because there’s an election around the corner doesn’t mean that we all of a sudden have to go into conspiracy theories.’\n\nA Department of Finance document indicates there has been $136 million spent on advertising for government departments in 2019 alone. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Read more »
Labor voters believe government has ‘a money tree’: Kroger | Sky News AustraliaFormer Victorian Liberal Party president Michael Kroger says the Liberals need to challenge the incorrect perception it is a party of spending cuts. \n\nMr Kroger says Labor voters have been taught ‘there is a money tree out there’, thanks to the left-wing party rarely talking about debt and deficit and ‘not being committed to a surplus’. \n\nThe latest Newspoll shows only four per cent of Labor voters believe delivering a surplus is the top priority for the budget, while 71 per cent see spending on services and income tax cuts as most important.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Read more »
Labor accuses Coalition of playing games with federal election date | Sky News AustraliaLabor has accused the government of delaying the federal election date announcement, in order to cash in on tax-payer funded advertising. \n\nThe Prime Minister is refusing to confirm the date, but there's speculation he's hoping for a 'budget boost' when Newspoll is released on Sunday night.\n\nSky News understands the Morrison government is likely to call the election next week, opening the likelihood of a May 18th poll.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n
Read more »
Labor to tax and control Australians more to meet emissions target: Taylor | Sky News AustraliaEnergy Minister Angus Taylor says Labor is ‘all about’ taxing more and controlling more of Australians’ lives to meet their emissions reduction target.\n\nMr Taylor says the idea that a Labor government forcing people into owning electric cars to meet their quota of 50 per cent by 2030 is ‘madness’.\n\nThe Liberal MP says technology is adopted at a natural pace, and that a government enforcing it is ‘wrong’. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n\n
Read more »
Under Labor you can battle cancer without going broke: Shorten | Sky News AustraliaThe Opposition Leader has announced that Australians diagnosed with cancer will ‘battle without going broke’ under a would-be Labor government's $2.3 billion Medicare cancer plan.\n\nBill Shorten delivered his budget reply on Thursday night, revealing Labor’s plan to invest $600 million towards eliminating all out-of-pocket costs for diagnostic imaging such as CT scans, PET scans, mammograms, X-rays and ultrasounds.\n\nThe plan includes $433 million to cover specialist consultations for cancer patients. \n\nThe Labor Leader also announced the affordable Medicine guarantee, which would see every cancer drug recommended by independent experts listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n
Read more »
Medicare rebate set to rise under Labor: Catherine King | Sky News AustraliaFULL INTERVIEW: Labor Leader Bill Shorten has announced a $2.3 billion Medicare cancer plan during his budget reply speech on Thursday night, which he says is the ‘most significant investment in Medicare in a generation’.\n\nSpeaking with Sky News, Shadow Health Minister Catherine King says the rate that the Medicare rebate is currently set quite low, explaining that Labor will raise it to around $150 from about $60.\n\nMs King says Labor has had all its policies in the Medicare plan costed by the Parliamentary Budget Office.\n\nImage: News Corp Australia\n\n\n
Read more »
Albanese says Labor will 'fully fund' the $527m Disability Royal Commission | Sky News AustraliaSenior Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese says Labor will fully fund the Royal Commission into the abuse, neglect and exploitation of Australians living with a disability if it is successful at the May federal election. \n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison officially announced the $527 million commission on Friday, which is expected to run for three years and the final report to be handed down in April 2022. \n\nLabor argues there was an underspend in the NDIS by the government, funding Mr Albanese claims was partly used to fund the commission.\n\nMr Albanese says Labor 'supported and called' for the royal commission and has welcomed the government's announcement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Read more »
Labor revives Mediscare campaign ahead of federal election | Sky News AustraliaThe Labor Party is resurrecting the Mediscare campaign, pledging to unfreeze medicare rebates. \n\nLabor says health is fertile ground with the election two months away, and pledges to remove the Medicare rebate freeze on 100 GP items, such as mental health and family counselling, within 50 days. \n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison says it’s a cheap stunt to win votes ahead of the election, and if you ‘vote Labor once, you pay for it for more than a decade’. \n\nImage: News Corp Australia \n\n\n\n
Read more »
Morrison accuses Labor of playing politics with NDIS | Sky News AustraliaPrime Minister Scott Morrison has accused Labor of playing politics with the National Disability Insurance Scheme. \n\nThe Opposition earlier accused the government of propping up its budget surplus by cutting funding to the service. \n\nThe Prime Minister says the NDIS is fully funded but concedes it is taking longer than expected to reach the number of people in need of the scheme. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Read more »