Government Advertising

Ms CHAPMAN (Bragg—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (14:29): Supplementary: when the head of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Mr Russell, provided a copy of the annual report to the Premier on 28 September 2017, did he read it and did he make any observation as to the absence of the detail in respect of government advertising?

The Hon. J.W. WEATHERILL (Cheltenham—Premier, Minister for the Arts) (14:29): No, I don't recall observing the difference to the extent that it exists between a previous annual report and the present annual report. As I say, I will take the question on notice and find the answer. The information that the opposition seeks is notorious. They have already been published in answer to questions by Leader of the Opposition or often on announcement. When we make a new communications campaign, we routinely announce the budgeted amount associated with it, and I have routinely been providing answers to questions that have been supplied by the media and by the opposition concerning those matters.