It's a national emergency. Quick, run the propaganda ads Wayne
Every one of you fuckwits that voted for these turkeys should be dragged face first through a sewerage pond. You useless, no-brained, fucking fucks. Calling national emergency powers to run a fucking ad campaign because they are so inept. Say goodbye to another $38M of taxpayers monies you fucking tards
Rudd's backflip
Labor promised prior to the 2007 election that it would cut back drastically on government advertising and that it would introduce new checks and balances.
"I believe this is a sick cancer within our system. It's a cancer on democracy," then-opposition leader Kevin Rudd told The 7.30 Report in October 2007.
Mr Rudd said as prime minister he would put his job on the line to ensure the auditor-general had the power to scrutinise expensive ad campaigns, to check their veracity, and make sure they were not simply political ads.
He was asked in 2007 if he would resign if he had not delivered this system within his first term.
Mr Rudd replied: "In terms of establishing the office of the auditor-general with clear-cut guidelines to whom every television campaign is submitted for approval before that television campaign is implemented, you have my absolute, 100 per cent guarantee that that will occur.
"One hundred per cent guarantee and each one of you here can hold me accountable for that."
But two months ago the auditor-general was sidelined from the job.
Instead a vetting panel of three retired public servants, known as the Independent Communications Committee, was set up to check government ads.
The committee is answerable to the government, not the Parliament.