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These sort of ads can only be justified if they are solely designed to provide factual information about upcoming changes to the law following the passage of a bill through parliament.

This ad campaign does not fit such a criteria at all. It does not even attempt to explain the proposed scheme. Even if it did there isn't even a bill written and before parliament. Parliament isn't the executive's rubber stamp and it cannot be assumed that a proposal will be the same as the bill that finally becomes law. There may be amendments, it may not even pass. Hence ad campaigns should ideally wait until after royal accent. To do otherwise is an affront to parliamentary democracy.

Gillard defends the ads by saying Howard did it. Well two wrongs don't make a right. I also recall the intense criticism from Labor at the time of the WorkChoices and GST ads. Rudd called such government advertising 'a cancer on our democracy'. Too right. Astounding hypocrisy. Note also that both the Work Choices and GST ad campaigns came AFTER their respective bills had passed the parliament.
 
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It's Labor, plus its politics, what else do you expect them to do with tax payers money?
 
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Bad move on behalf of the Labor government - they should be funding that from their own pocket (and I support Labor).
 
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Also, Labor promised during the 2007 election to end this kind of government advertising.

Another broken promise.
 
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Rafy said:
Also, Labor promised during the 2007 election to end this kind of government advertising.

Another broken promise.
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The same election where the coalition committed to an emmisions trading scheme? At any rate there has been an election since then and a very obvious overhaul of the Labor party leadership since then. The main architects of that policy were Rudd, Tanner and Faulkner.
 
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iRuler said:
I did also mention it's politics...
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Yes, but you first mentioned it was labor.


Frankly this is only a problem because of this obsessive freedom of speech complex we have in this nation. A blanket ban on televised advertising for political causes be them Government, Opposition, Getup, The Minerals Council or the unions would see and end to the hundreds of millions of dollars which are burned up in this stupid game of sloganeering every election, money which could be used for something good.
 
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Lentern said:
Yes, but you first mentioned it was labor.
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Yeah, I'm not a fan of Labor, dont really agree with them 100%.

Frankly this is only a problem because of this obsessive freedom of speech complex we have in this nation. A blanket ban on televised advertising for political causes be them Government, Opposition, Getup, The Minerals Council or the unions would see and end to the hundreds of millions of dollars which are burned up in this stupid game of sloganeering every election, money which could be used for something good.
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Ban? not really, but certainly should be limited and tougher restrictions should be placed.
 
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I'd rather the US presidential system, fuck the monarchy
 
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