Mrs Edwardes (Opposition) questions the Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries regarding advertising costs across various media platforms. The Minister declines to answer due to the unreasonable resource burden required to compile the information, offering to consider specific requests instead.

AnsweredQoN 2610Legislative Assembly
Asked
2 March 2004
Portfolio
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries; the Midwest, Wheatbelt and Great Southern

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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
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries; the Midwest, Wheatbelt and Great Southern
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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