The government is being urged to stop the abuse of taxpayer-funded advertising, a dependency on which has led to $50 million a year in public money being spent advertising political messages in recent years.
A new report released on Monday by the Grattan Institute, a public policy think tank, finds that over the past 13 years some $630 million, or about a quarter of the total budget for federal advertising campaigns, has been spent on political self-promotion.
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