Not With My Money

GetUp is calling for the introduction of a new law that ensures that:

1. All future government advertising costs (from focus groups to media buying) are publicly available and easily accessible to the community via an annual report
2. All advertising above $250,000 is to be approved by an independent auditor who applies strict guidelines to limit advertising to the dissemination of public information
3. These guidelines are to be developed with public consultation with the final guidelines to be publicly available
4. These conditions to apply in both the federal and state governments within 1 year
5. A cap of $100 million p.a for total government advertising spending is to be imposed with any additional money to be approved by parliament.