Immigration spin team: How many does it take to say no comment?

[boris1gary]

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/immigration-spin-team-how-many-does-it-take...

The Immigration Department employs a 66-strong team of spin doctors, dwarfing the 39 media and communications staff employed by Prime Minister Tony Abbott and the ministers on his frontbench.

In August last year, Immigration employed 72 media staff, but the 66 officers who now work in the media unit are supported by a further 33 staff, who work on media operations and events in the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service.

In 2011, the Immigration Department reportedly employed just 13 spin doctors.

Fairfax Media asked the Immigration Department to comment on its media staffing levels, but was referred to Mr Morrison's media team, which did not respond.

Details about the staffing levels were quietly tabled by the department last week in response to a series of questions posed by Labor senator Joe Ludwig during budget estimates hearings in November. The staffing figures were correct as at November 19.

The documents show Mr Morrison's office spent $29,788 on media monitoring in just over two months between September 7 and November 19.

The department spent another $11,476 on media monitoring in that period, including $9056 for transcripts of Mr Morrison's weekly Operation Sovereign Borders briefings (which he has since abandoned).

[lakeland27]

took the gloves off ? he hides behind a press magnate in his nineties and a drunk who runs his life. it is he who would fall luvvie .

[pixie-six]

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[march470]

how to kill a thread in a blink of an eye.

[freakiness]

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@silverfaun wrote:

if Tony Abbott took the gloves off and sunk down to the level of Labor's insulting and offensive actions they would be knocked into the next stratosphere of stupidity where they belong. Had a good laugh at that one.

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Abbott spent 3 years in the gutter. Now he is just hiding behind those who are equally as loony and biased.

[boris1gary]

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@silverfaun wrote:

Julia Gillard had a 300 to 500 media contingent for her office of the PM exclusively.

You have to do better than that because it's out there and public knoweledge.

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300, 500, 1 million - the OP is in regards to the Immigration Dept, is Ms Gillard working for them now? Her name seems to pop up everywhere, 6 months have passed - what has she got to do with this thread.

[freakiness]

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@boris1gary wrote:

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@silverfaun wrote:

Julia Gillard had a 300 to 500 media contingent for her office of the PM exclusively.

You have to do better than that because it's out there and public knoweledge.

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300, 500, 1 million - the OP is in regards to the Immigration Dept, is Ms Gillard working for them now? Her name seems to pop up everywhere, 6 months have passed - what has she got to do with this thread.

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Just goes to show the lack of substance in the govt ranks.

Last year during the Gillarhate fest those who dared to could at least defend the policies and programs the govt was implementing.  This lot have nothing defendable to defend so fans have to keep resorting to the old Gillarhate/Laborhate fest to defend Abbott.

[freshwater-2]

dwarfing the 39 media and communications staff employed by Prime Minister

Hmmmm.  I wonder how many have posting pro Lib cut and pastes on public forums as part of their duties. .