Your money should fund services, not press releases.
WA Government campaign media has cost more than $205 million in four and a half years. Spending on advertising, research and polling reached $157.7 million in 2023–24, up almost 80% in nine years.
The same packages are announced again and again. One $72.6 million package appeared in 14 media statements. Budgets also assumed $9.4 billion of infrastructure would run late.
A better way is straight numbers that West Australians can check.
What we’d do
- Cap government advertising, and ban it in the months before an election.
- Publish one public register of every program, its total and its real spend.