Carbon tax to cost $14m before it starts, thanks to ad campaign | Adelaide Now

TAXPAYERS will pay nearly $14 million to fund a carbon tax advertising campaign.

According to Budget papers the "climate change foundation campaign" will cost $13.7 million in total, including $5.5 million this financial year and $8.2 million in 2011-12.

Last year's Budget papers revealed, it is "a national campaign to educate the community on climate change, including on climate science".

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