Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Colleagues are obviously aware, and I know Senator McAllister is aware from her question, of the comprehensive and historic media reform that fairly recently passed through this parliament. Part of the package that was agreed upon in the context of the federal budget was that there would be $7½ million per year over four years that would go to subscription TV to facilitate the broadcast of women's sport and other underrepresented sports. It's important to recognise that the Australian Sports Commission, in a recent work a couple of years ago, found that 70 per cent of all women's sport was on Fox Sports. There are indeed four dedicated channels that they use—