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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 2 Hansard (29 February) . . Page.. 366 ..

MR MOORE: Ms Tucker's question carries an inference that there is a lack of integrity in the advertising. That is entirely appropriate. It is not true. Ms Tucker, we will provide you with appropriate details. If you wish, as I often do, I will be happy to provide you with a personal briefing as well as providing the information here in the Assembly.

MR RUGENDYKE: My question is to the Chief Minister. Yesterday during an interview with Chris Uhlmann on radio 2CN the Chief Minister asserted that the Bruce Stadium redevelopment now enabled the stadium to derive revenue from television rights. The Chief Minister, before the redevelopment, said:

To my knowledge, the major tenants - the Raiders and the Brumbies - do not negotiate television rights directly. I believe they are negotiated by the organisations which administer the competitions the Raiders and the Brumbies compete in. I am rather curious to know whom the Chief Minister expects Bruce Operations to secure televisions agreements with. Could the Chief Minister inform the Assembly what television rights she was referring to, the details of any television rights Bruce Operations are presently negotiating and how much the stadium has budgeted to receive from television rights?

MS CARNELL: I do not think Mr Rugendyke was listening to me properly yesterday morning. I was talking about getting games onto television. All the codes - whether rugby league, rugby union or soccer - need to get as many of their games as possible onto prime-time television, whether it be pay TV or free-to-air TV, because it gets their sponsors names up and so on. Obviously, if the television or the media facilities at the stadium are better, the capacity to get our games on television is significantly better. That helps the codes in terms of their sponsors' names and so on.

The importance of having good media facilities also runs through to the Olympics. Figures indicate a possible cumulative audience for Olympic soccer of something like 20 billion. An amazing number of people around the world could be watching Olympic soccer. If Mr Rugendyke is suggesting that media facilities, proper lines of sight and so on are unimportant to a stadium, he simply does not understand modern football or media requirements at these sorts of matches. They do require good facilities. I was not talking about selling television rights. I do not believe there is any budget for television rights sales at all.

MR RUGENDYKE: I ask a supplementary question. Is it the case that the Chief Minister was determined to put a positive light on the Bruce Stadium contracts by suggesting to the public that we were going to derive income from television rights when it is simply not the case?

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