Did you know that Kevin Rudd has declared a national emergency?
Well, maybe not a national one, but a political one – for the Labor Party.
Tony Abbott hit the nail on the head this afternoon when he described it as “just a political emergency for our Prime Minister”
Last Friday morning, immediately after Senate Budget Estimates hearings had concluded, Senator Joe Ludwig, Cabinet Secretary, announced that he has exempted the Government’s $38 million advertising campaign about the mining tax from his own guidelines “on the basis of a national emergency, extreme urgency or other compelling reason.”
In 2007, Kevin Rudd described government partisan advertising as is “a sick cancer within our system. It’s a cancer on democracy.”
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Kevin Rudd specifically promised in Opposition not to do exactly what he is doing now.
Kevin Rudd promised oversight from the Auditor-General. They dumped the Auditor-General from that role a few weeks ago. You can add that broken promise to the ever-growing list.
And now they are avoiding their own watered-down guidelines in a desperate attempt to mislead the public on the damage this tax will cause.
Whenever you see Labor Government ads about this great big tax on our most successful export industry – remember you are paying for them.