The National
In 2013, the Australian government paid a PR company AUD 277,000 ($203,000) of taxpayer money to buy up advertising spots on TV, radio and print publications in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. A portion of the funds also went to distributing 20,000 notebooks with Australian government advertisements on the front and back covers to Afghan secondary school and university students.
“Advertisements” is a misnomer. The campaign, which ran for several years and included hundreds of thousands of dollars more in spending, was not advertising Australia. It was designed to put people off Australia. READ MORE