Senator Bob Carr: The Minister for Defence has provided the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: Group/Service Communications Program – 1 January to 30 June 2012 Total Spend ($) Capability Development Group RFI Advertising Campaign in support of JP157 to investigate commercial options – 13 June 2012 $6,331 Systems Engineering Test and Evaluation Conference 30 April 2012 and associated costs $40,000 Defence Science and Technology Organisation Pacific 2012 conference and display (approved 2011) $62,386.80 Sponsorship of ATSE Clunies Ross Awards $10,000 Sponsorship of ANZ Societies of Air Safety Investigators $3,000 Chief Information Group Media monitoring services $2,700 Australian Computer Society Conference and Exhibition March 2012 (note – booth was paid for by DMO. Our costs include printing and additional lighting $900.00 Vice Chief of the Defence Force Group Joint eHealth Data Information System (JeHDI) website development No cost to JHC Development of communication artefacts for JeHDI No cost to JHC ADF Health Services Contract website development No cost to JHC ADF Health Services Contract development and distribution of in-house flyer No cost to JHC ADF Health Services Contract development and distribution of service update flyer No cost to JHC 1 x EL1 – media operations $93,740.00 Defence People Group Navy brand and job specific advertising for Navy Officer and General Entry priority roles $3,968,925 Army brand and job specific advertising for Army Officer and General Entry priority roles $8,834,994 Air Force brand and job specific advertising for Air Force Officer and General Entry priority roles $4,671,318 Advertising ADF Gap Year, ADFA, Defence University Sponsorship and Professional Graduate Health and Engineering positions $1,370,814 Promotion of the AFL Army Award at the national and local levels $17,778