Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young says the government is out of touch on the cost of living and young Australians after passing a bill on access to live sport.
The millions of Australians who view live sport via an internet connection could be blocked from viewing events such as the NRL and AFL grand finals, the Australian Open and Olympics for free, under new laws passed on Thursday.
Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said the government and Coalition had sold out free sport today, doing the dirty work of the Murdoch media and giant US streaming corporations such as Amazon and Netflix. The anti-siphoning list was introduced in the 1990s to prevent major sporting events from disappearing behind a paywall with the arrival of pay TV, namely Foxtel.
“We know that increasing numbers of Australians are watching their free TV services online, but these laws leave those people with no guarantee of free sport,” chief executive of FreeTV Australia Bridget Fair said.James Brickwoodframework and force Australians to pay thousands of dollars to streaming services to access the sporting events that Australians expect to watch for free,” she said.
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