Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

The $200 million RISE program—the Restart Investment Sustain and Expand fund—delivers on some of the objectives that Senator Hanson-Young is precisely asking about. It supports programs and initiatives to be able to restart. When events are postponed due to COVID restrictions, we've been working with funding recipients to assist them in relation to the rescheduling. The funding is there to provide that support and that underwriting to ensure that an event can proceed even if there are concerns and doubts that exist around that. But it and the Commonwealth government's programs don't operate in isolations. They operate alongside many state government ventures, and it is not unusual for many of these major events to be operated by state government agencies and instrumentalities too.