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

Thank you, Mr President. Now, what I was going to move to next, after having made that point, is that my department is negotiating, with Fox Sports, a funding deed, which will have milestones and will have those things that are required in order to satisfy the obligations for receiving that particular support in the budget measure. I go back to where I started: there's nothing unusual, in the budget context, in that there is no correspondence between the department and stakeholders. The announcement was made in the context of the budget and, as I've indicated, there is a funding deed being negotiated—as you would expect and is common practice—when there is a grant.