Preventing the Misuse of Government Advertising Bill 2010
Information about the Inquiry
On 16 June 2010 the Senate referred the following matter to the Senate Finance and Public Administration Committee for inquiry and report.
Preventing the Misuse of Government Advertising Bill 2010.
The Bill proposes to establish a legislative framework for accountability of expenditure on information and advertising campaigns undertaken by Australian government departments and agencies to ensure that the campaign advertising does not contain electoral matter. The Bill also provides the Auditor-General with new functions of reviewing government information and advertising campaigns with a cost in excess of $250 000 and reporting whether they comply with the principles and guidelines set out in the Bill.
Submissions should be received by 18 June 2010. The reporting date is 21 June 2010.
The Committee is seeking written submissions from interested individuals and organisations preferably in electronic form submitted online or sent by email to fpa.sen@aph.gov.au as an attached Adobe PDF or MS Word format document. The email must include full postal address and contact details.
Alternatively, written submissions may be sent to:
Senate Finance and Public Administration Committee
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia
Notes to help you prepare your submission are available from the website at https://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/wit_sub/index.htm. Alternatively, the Committee Secretariat will be able to help you with your inquiries and can be contacted on telephone +61 2 6277 3439 or facsimile +61 2 6277 5809 or by email to fpa.sen@aph.gov.au.
Inquiries from hearing and speech impaired people should be directed to Parliament House TTY number 02 6277 7799. Adobe also provides tools at http://access.adobe.com/ for the blind and visually impaired to access PDF documents. If you require any special arrangements to enable you to participate in the Committee's inquiry, please contact the Committee Secretariat.
Once the Committee accepts your submission, it becomes a confidential Committee document and is protected by Parliamentary Privilege. You must not release your submission without the Committee's permission. If you do, it will not be protected by Parliamentary Privilege. At some stage during the inquiry, the Committee normally makes submissions public and places them on its website. Please indicate if you want your submission to be kept confidential.
For further information, contact: Senate Finance and Public Administration Committee
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia