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

Thank you for your question, Senator. As I've already said, I would love the ABC to get into broadcasting sport—not just women's sport, Senator Farrell, but all sport. I think the ABC needs to think less about high culture and a little bit more about low culture, because there are more people participating in sport in this country than there are attending the opera or the theatre. I want to see the ABC investing some of that billion dollars into real people doing sport right out in our communities. Get the cameramen and camerawomen or get the local ABC Radio broadcasters down to the local footy or down to the local netballers. We pay you a billion bucks. Get out of the studio and into the community and talk about what matters to real people—and that is sport.