Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Regional Communications) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you very much, Senator Farrell. Yes, the guidelines are out there. They're being discussed, as the Minister for Communications has already answered you. I want to touch on your earlier question around the ABC. I remember getting up very early on a Sunday morning to watch netball. They were the first broadcaster to broadcast women's sport. We thank the ABC for being a leader in broadcasting women's sport, but the ABC gets a billion dollars a year from the public taxpayer. It's very well positioned to broadcast women's sports, and I'd actually encourage it to get out there into our communities and use the technology that's available to it to look not just at the WBBL, the AFL et cetera but also at the more niche sports that women are participating in right across our communities and get it onto the public broadcaster so that we can all get a good look. (Time expired)