RECEIVE CAMPAIGN UPDATESACT Labor acting like Howard Government
Monday, August 4th, 2008Using taxpayers funds to advertise itself is making the Stanhope government look a lot like the dying days of the Howard government, according to Greens candidate for Molonglo, Shane Rattenbury.
“Over the weekend, I received two glossy brochures in my letterbox advertising the government. One was on the government’s new health investment, reinforcing the money already spent on TV advertising. The second was on schools in the area. This is on top of the glossy brochure advertising the Budget that came around two months ago.”
“The Howard government became notorious for using record levels of taxpayers money on so-called government information campaigns, which was nothing more than thinly disguised political advertising.”
“The Stanhope Labor government is heading down the same path.”
“These brochures do not contain important practical information like how and where to access services, or deadlines for enrolments in school, they are simply self promotion for the government.”
“The community rightly became cynical about the Howard government when it adopted this practice, and the Labor government in Canberra is inviting the same response.”
The Greens call on the government to stop this blatant political advertising, and instead focus on providing services and real information such as where we can get easy access to a doctor and a dentist, and how we can enrol our kids in our local neighbourhood school.
