- Target:
- 50,000
- Region:
- Australia
- Website:
- politicalfixit.com
Governments in Australia at a federal and state level have been allowed to waste taxpayer dollars on non essential media advertising for too long and needs to stop. In a 4 year period in the lead up to the last election and on workchoices, John Howard spent close to a $ billion dollars in advertising.
This petition seeks to collect sufficient signatures to develop legislation to set boundaries on what constitutes acceptable advertising and what should not be allowed. Much of this money could be better spent on health and infrastructure.
Today's governments also employ the services of spin doctors and media advisors at taxpayers expense. The primary focus of these taxfunded employees is often to generate media spin to either influence a particular viewpoint of to increase the popularity of politicians and we feel is not warranted.
The popularity of any politician should be performance based on results achieved not spin. Please sign the petition to voice your objection to the amount of taxpayers money spent on advertising and the type of advertising it is used for.
The petition objects to the obscene amount of taxpayer funds used for non essential advertising by federal & state governments. It seeks to legislate to impose some strict boundaries to stop this practice.
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The Restrict Government Advertising petition to 50,000 was written by Politicalfixit and is in the category Politics at GoPetition.