Kevin Hogan (Page, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Last week there were some funding announcements with relation to the ABC. I just want to reiterate that, over the next five years, there will still be $5.2 billion flowing to the ABC, which is still a substantial amount of money. What I want to talk about today is that I am going to write to both the Minister for Communications and the Managing Director of the ABC, Mark Scott. In those letters I want to reiterate two points to both of them. To the Minister for Communications, we need to potentially look at changing the act and/or the charter of the ABC to ensure that it is obligatory that we have a member on the board of the ABC that is from regional and rural Australia. That would ensure that there is a designated voice from regional and rural Australia that will always be represented.

See this speech in context