{"id":9871,"date":"2021-01-09T02:57:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T02:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=9871"},"modified":"2021-01-09T02:57:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T02:57:49","slug":"scott-morrison-adds-billion-dollar-advertising-bill-to-trillion-dollar-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/01\/09\/scott-morrison-adds-billion-dollar-advertising-bill-to-trillion-dollar-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTT MORRISON ADDS BILLION DOLLAR ADVERTISING BILL TO TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Morrison is about to become the billion-dollar man when it comes to wasting public money on taxpayer funded advertising.
\nTaxpayers have spent $913 million on advertising since the year the Government took office and at the current rate Scott Morrison will crack the $1 billion mark this year.
\nScott Morrison\u2019s gift to Australia is a trillion-dollar debt and a billion-dollar bill for self-promotion.
\nHis obsession is marketing, photo-ops and favours for Liberal mates, rather than delivering for Australians.
\nFor example, in 18 months Mr Morrison has failed to invest a cent from his $4 billion fund for bushfire relief and natural disaster mitigation. But as communities affected by last year\u2019s bushfires continue to struggle, he has given a former Coalition staffer $190,000 to produce video material for his bushfire response marketing.
\nHe has splashed $15 million on the \u201cOur Comeback\u201d economic campaign this financial year, based on $1 million worth of research by a Liberal mate.
\nIn another indication of his warped priorities, Mr Morrison recently announced plans for a $24 million Coronavirus vaccine marketing campaign before he had even finalised plans for the actual roll-out of the vaccine.
\nThen there was the $140 million pre-election advertising blitz in 2018-19, which included $15.9 million towards the dud \u201cPowering Forward\u201d campaign later criticised by the Australian National Audit Office.
\nMr Morrison\u2019s professional background is marketing. First as Treasurer, and now as Prime Minister, he has made an artform of using public money on self-promotion.
\nHe treats taxpayers\u2019 money as though it is the Liberal Party\u2019s money.
\nMr Morrison\u2019s obsession with advertising is matched only by his propensity to make grand announcements but fail to deliver.
\nScott Morrison is always there for the photo-op but never there for the follow up.
\nTABLE: GOVERNMENT FIGURES ON ADVERTISING<\/strong>
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\nSources:<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Finance campaign advertising report 2019-20<\/a>
\nDepartment of Finance campaign advertising report 2018-19<\/a>
\nDepartment of Finance campaign advertising report 2017-18<\/a>
\nDepartment of Finance campaign advertising report 2016-17<\/a>
\nDepartment of Finance campaign advertising report 2015-16<\/a>
\nDepartment of Finance campaign advertising report 2014-15<\/a>
\nDepartment of Finance campaign advertising report 2013-14<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott Morrison is about to become the billion-dollar man when it comes to wasting public money on taxpayer funded advertising. Taxpayers have spent $913 million on advertising since the year the Government took office and at the current rate Scott Morrison will crack the $1 billion mark this year. Scott Morrison\u2019s gift to Australia is … Continue reading “SCOTT MORRISON ADDS BILLION DOLLAR ADVERTISING BILL TO TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}