The Greens say 1 million people who watched the Matildas World Cup semifinal against England last year via streaming would have been blocked from seeing it under Labor's proposed changes to the anti-siphoning scheme.
There are concerns proposed changes to federal laws could see people who stream sport locked out from watching major events like the AFL and NRL grand finals
"They were established in the 1990s when pay television came in, essentially to prevent what are called events of national importance and cultural significance being captured exclusively by pay TV," Dr Rowe said. "So what we'll have is a large number of Australians who don't watch television with an aerial, they won't be able to access their favourite football team or the Matildas or the Boxing Day Test match for free," Senator Hanson-Young said.
"Last year, we saw the Matildas play England. More than 7 million Australians on average watched that game and over a million of those people were watching through the internet," she said. "The Department's Television and Media Survey 2023 shows that watching through a broadcast signal and antenna was the top response for how Australians most often access free-to-air television," she said.
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