Destination NSW and Sydney Opera House rapped for flouting govt advertising policies

Screen Shot 2015-06-22 at 4.03.43 PMDestination NSW has been chastised by the audit office for flouting rules which demand social media policies be apolitical and for splitting its ad campaign expenditure to avoid scrutiny from the government.

In a report released today, the Auditor General ruled there were “areas of uncertainty and non-compliance with the government advertising” relating to both Destination NSW and Sydney Opera House.

“We found that agencies had not complied with the government’s social media policy which requires social media content to be apolitical. For example, DNSW had posted political images on its social media accounts,” the report stated.

They included twitter posts featuring NSW Premier Mike Baird.

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