QLD Premier Anna Bligh has revealed that her government uses tax payers money to employ 640 media spin doctors.
The Premier last night released figures showing the government employed 640 people in media, communications, graphic design, marketing and advertising.
Premier Bligh only released the figures after continued pressure from LNP leader Lawrence Springborg.
ANNA Bligh has defended the number of State Government communications staff, saying they are necessary for circulating important safety messages.
When you break the numbers down tax payers are paying for 1 spin doctor per 6,200 Queenslander’s. If they are paid the average wage of $54,000 per year plus super, QLD tax payers are paying $37,670,400 in wages alone each year for Bligh’s Labor media propaganda machine.
Whats the safety message Anna. Vote Labor or else?
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Update 2.32pm, 10th November.
LNP child safety spokeswoman Jann Stuckey writes:
Child safety Minister Margaret Keech was obviously more interested in spin than addressing the worst staff attrition rate in the government.
Her Department employs a media/pr team of 10, including a director, a media manager, a principal media officer, two senior media officers, two senior communications officers and two communications officers, which with salaries and on-costs would easily run to a million dollars-plus.
How can the Minister and this Labor Government justify spending of this scale, when 35 per cent of Child Safety staff resigned last year. That’s 35 per cent, yet during that time the Department’s media unit grew from seven to 10.
Surely a million dollars would be better invested in the improvement of pay and conditions for frontline child safety officers, who, I’m informed, have impossible caseloads, in some instances as high as 60 vulnerable, at-risk children.
Have your Say.
Yes they specialize in PR , spin and shuffling millions of tonnes of A4 paper . When I went to the protest meeting against Tarong Energy digging up the Darling Downs they handed each person a thick folder of every aspect of mining coal seam gas. Reading matter to intimidate and shut us up.
Steve,
Nothing like a bit of minor competition for Agmates from the Qld. Gov.