A WA parliamentary question seeks detailed information on advertising costs and agents for various government portfolios over four years. The Minister declines to provide the information due to the unreasonable resource burden it would place on the department, but offers to consider more specific requests.

AnsweredQoN 2608Legislative Assembly
Asked
2 March 2004
Portfolio
Community Development, Women's Interests, Seniors and Youth; Disability Services; Culture and the Arts

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(b) for each series of advertisements, who was the advertising agent and the producer of the advertisement; (c) what was the cost of production; (d) what was the cost of print media advertising, excluding employment advertising, with The West Australian ; (e) what was the cost of print media advertising, excluding employment advertising, with community and regional print media; (f) for each series of advertisements who was the advertising agent; and (g) for each series of advertisements, what was the cost of production?
(c) what was the cost of production; (d) what was the cost of print media advertising, excluding employment advertising, with The West Australian ; (e) what was the cost of print media advertising, excluding employment advertising, with community and regional print media; (f) for each series of advertisements who was the advertising agent; and (g) for each series of advertisements, what was the cost of production?
(d) what was the cost of print media advertising, excluding employment advertising, with The West Australian ; (e) what was the cost of print media advertising, excluding employment advertising, with community and regional print media; (f) for each series of advertisements who was the advertising agent; and (g) for each series of advertisements, what was the cost of production?
(e) what was the cost of print media advertising, excluding employment advertising, with community and regional print media; (f) for each series of advertisements who was the advertising agent; and (g) for each series of advertisements, what was the cost of production?
(f) for each series of advertisements who was the advertising agent; and (g) for each series of advertisements, what was the cost of production?
(g) for each series of advertisements, what was the cost of production?
I am not prepared to allocate the resources required to provide this information. If, however, the member has a specific request regarding further costs associated with advertising I would be prepared to consider the member’s request.

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Answered
13 May 2004
Responded by
Minister for Community Development, Women's Interests, Seniors and Youth; Disability Services; Culture and the Arts
Response time
72 days
To ask for information about each and every campaign for each and every one of the advertising entities under my portfolio for four financial years, would require an unreasonable diversion of Departmental human resources.
I am not prepared to allocate the resources required to provide this information. If, however, the member has a specific request regarding further costs associated with advertising I would be prepared to consider the member’s request.

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