Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee (part 3 of 3)

28 May 2026

Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee Australian Parliament

07:15 - 07:19
Speaker 11
Come seven 0.1.  Who's...  Who am I gonna just...  Senator Henderson. 
07:19 - 07:45
Speaker 16
Thank you very much, I just wanna turn briefly to media reports that families are cutting back on their children playing sport, due to cost of living impacts on families.  Are you able to make, any comment in relation to those reports, miss Rouser?  Have you seen any data to support that, or have you examined, this, reported trend? 
07:47 - 08:09
Speaker 13
Senator, I haven't seen any data in relation to that.  I I have seen a a media article that did refer to that, on the impact in particular around regional and rural people.  However, in in the same way, the geopolitical situation and rising fuel costs are impacting a whole range of ways of life.  Sport is not immune to that. 
08:11 - 08:31
Speaker 16
Are you investigating these issues?  Are you...  Is the government planning any action to give families better support who are in that position, particularly families in rural and regional and remote areas who have to travel long distances to take their children to sport? 

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