Mr TURNBULL (Wentworth—Prime Minister) (14:10): The honourable member— Mr Albanese: Mr Speaker, I raise a point of order. The SPEAKER: We are five seconds in, so it cannot be on relevance, but I will call the point of order. Mr Albanese: No, it is certainly not. The member for Dickson should withdraw that interjection. The SPEAKER: I did not hear the member for Dickson's interjection. I do not want him to repeat it. Mr Albanese: You cannot cast aspersions upon motivation. The SPEAKER: I did not hear the interjection. I will say to the member for Dickson if he said something that is unparliamentary and it will assist the House—I did not hear it because of the noise level, I have to say. Mr Dutton: Mr Speaker, I thought he was proud of his CFMEU links. If he is offended by the association, I withdraw it. The SPEAKER: The minister for immigration has withdrawn. Mr Dreyfus interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Isaacs will not interject. The Prime Minister has the call. Mr TURNBULL: I thank the honourable member for his question about government advertising. It recalls one of the more disgraceful exercises of the last Labor government. We all recall during the last election campaign how the then Special Minister of State, the member for Isaacs, directed the Public Service to continue the blatantly political 'By boat, no visa' advertisements during the 2013 election campaign. They ignored the advice of their own senior public servants. Mr Dreyfus interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Isaacs is warned! Mr TURNBULL: During this campaign, a direction was made to the then secretary of Finance, Mr Tune. He was asked in Senate estimates: Are you familiar with many other instances where very senior officials or secretaries have been directed by ministers around advertising campaigns during caretaker periods? Mr Tune said: I cannot recall any … I have certainly not come across it myself in the past. Senator Smith asked: So unique and exceptional in your experience? Mr Tune: Indeed. Senator Smith: Unprecedented, even? Mr Tune: For me, yes. Unprecedented, political interference—there it was. They wrote some letters about this. A letter from Mr Dreyfus QC, Special Minister of State to the Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship directing the Public Service to continue running a blatantly political ad, which was so dishonest. What it sought to do was claim that the Labor Party had won a great victory in the battle against people smuggling. In fact, there were never better friends for the people smugglers than the Labor Party. They dismantled the Howard government policies which worked. The consequences, we know, were 50,000 unauthorised arrivals and thousands of deaths at sea. It was a total catastrophe. Then, at the eleventh hour—after Kevin Rudd returned as Prime Minister—they tried in a scramble to adopt the coalition's policy and then claimed victory with ads that were blatantly political and should never have been run during the caretaker period but were run on the express directions of the Special Minister of State—now the shadow Attorney-General—overruling the caretaker conventions. The Labor Party's record in government advertising is a disgrace.