Government Advertising

In reply to Dr CLOSE (Port Adelaide—Deputy Leader of the Opposition) (25 September 2018). (Estimates Committee A)

The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS (Black—Minister for Environment and Water): I have been advised:

(a) In 2017-18 the Department for Environment and Water employed the equivalent of 17.38 full-time employees (FTEs) to undertake communication and promotion activities. This was at a total cost of $1,940,972.

(b) There are no plans in place to either increase or decrease FTE's employed to provide 'communication and promotion activities' in the years 2018-22, so it has been assumed that the number of FTEs employed in 2017-18 will be constant across these out years.

* Salary calculations include on-costs for Payroll Tax (4.95%), long service leave (3%), Work Cover (1%) and Superannuation (based on the individual employee's chosen rate). The current enterprise bargaining agreement has been incorporated into the 2017/18 and 2018/19 costs. From 2019/20 onwards an estimated 1.5 per cent (DTF rate) has been applied to each of the out years as the enterprise bargaining agreement increase is unknown for these years.

(c) As an open and transparent Government, Marketing Communications Activity Reports and Annual Media Expenditure details are proactively disclosed. The Activity Reports list all marketing campaigns over the cost of $50,000 and are posted on a monthly basis. This information can be found at: https://dpc.sa.gov.au/what-we-do/services-for-government/government-communications/government-media-advertising-expenditure.