Scott Buchholz (Wright, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Road Safety and Freight Transport) Share this | Hansard source

If there are no more speakers, the government will sum up. Australians have no tolerance for the corruption of sport. It damages the confidence participants and viewers have in the games that they hold close to their hearts. In order to effectively identify and react to the escalating integrity risks in sport, it's essential a cohesive and well-resourced national-level capability is in place. The government is responding to these risks by cohesively drawing together existing sporting integrity capabilities to establish Sports Integrity Australia with a focus on policy and program delivery, education, outreach and antidoping monitoring coupled with intelligence. Sports Integrity Australia will be well placed to assist the sporting community to prevent, address and identify integrity threats in sports.

I note that Australian sports are cherished by many Australians, and this government is committed to comprehensively protecting the integrity of Australian sport for the benefit of the entire Australian community for generations to come. I thank members for their contribution to the debate on this bill.

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