Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications) Share this | Hansard source

Just for context, I should indicate that the indexation pause represents the equivalent of about 2.6 per cent of the ABC's budget—that is, 2.6c per dollar that the ABC receives. This is, in the context of the ABC's overall budget, something that is fairly modest. The ABC was aware before budget night that this was to be the case. We, as I mentioned before, are not altering the ABC's funding in the current triennium, which has a year to go, which means that the ABC is well placed to consider its operations in the context of the funding that will be in the next triennium.