Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

Here we go again. The only difference is it is not the Australian Greens asking the question this time, it is the Australian Labor Party.

The government has been clear all the way through that every Commonwealth government department and agency should be good stewards of taxpayer dollars. The ABC and SBS should not be exempt from that legitimate public expectation that they get good value from each of the hard-earned taxpayer dollars that they render to the Australian government. That was the basis of the efficiency review that was commissioned. You would be aware that the results of that work have been provided to the boards of the ABC and SBS. The government is confident that the work of that review can be implemented by the ABC, can be taken into account by the ABC board without—