Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

You clearly didn't listen to the Prime Minister's speech at the Press Club last week. We've accepted all four recommendations and are acting on them. But we are elected to make decisions. Whether you like it or not, we are the elected government of Australia, and right now it is this government that makes decisions on the allocation of grants and the like, and that is what happened here. It was done appropriately—and, indeed, Labor electorates did way better than they would have under the independent decision-making of Sport Australia.