Funding Arrangements for Tax Reform Advertising
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.
(a) whether the Rudd Government's tax reform advertising campaign is an outrageous abuse of taxpayers' dollars;
(b) whether the Rudd Government should be allowed to spend millions of dollars in advertising a new tax that
has not been approved by parliament;
(c) whether the Special Minister of State and Cabinet Secretary (Senator Ludwig) acted appropriately in exempting
the tax reform advertising campaign from the Guidelines on Information and Advertising Campaigns by Australian
Government Departments and Agencies; and
(d) what further provisions are necessary to strengthen the controls on government advertising to prevent
taxpayers' dollars being used for electioneering purposes in the future.
Submissions should be received by 22 June 2010. The reporting date is 30 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