Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull makes a statement during a joint press conference with United States Vice President Joe Biden in Sydney on Tuesday, July 19, 2016. Mr Biden is visiting Australia as part of a tour of the Pacific. AAP Image - Paul Miller
Politics
Scramble to remove possible campaign slogan from Govt site
FEDERAL bureaucrats have scrambled to erase the Prime Minister's "exciting time" catchcry from a Government website, amid claims it amounted to political advertising.
Labor in February this year referred the Government's $28 million Ideas Boom ad campaign to the Auditor-General.
The Opposition claimed the use of Malcolm Turnbull's "exciting time" phrase was inappropriate in a taxpayer-funded promotional blitz.
The Ideas Boom homepage originally prominently featured the phrase: "There's never been a more exciting time to be Australian."
But on March 8 this year the slogan was swapped for: "Welcome to the ideas boom."
Read more at ABC News Online.
