Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to amend motion No. 243 standing in my name.

Leave granted.

I move the motion as amended:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

  (i) since 2013, more than $300 million has been cut from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) by the Coalition Government,

  (ii) the ABC has confirmed it will not buy the non-commercial rights to next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo, meaning there will be no live broadcast for the first time since 1952, and

  (iii) the ABC has cited 'budget pressures' as being behind the decision; and

(b) calls on the Federal Government to provide stable and adequate funding to the ABC.