The Arts portfolio is under a cabinet minister, so why not Sport as well - says Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott.
Usually allocated to the outer ministry, Minister for Sport Peter Dutton will be sitting on the frontbench in the Abbott government.
"It's good that sport is represented by a cabinet level minister just as a I think it's good that arts are," Mr Abbott said while announcing his ministry in Parliament House on Monday.
When asked if he was looking to make more changes to the law following match-fixing concerns in soccer and AFL, Mr Abbott said he would ask Mr Dutton to seek an urgent briefing into the matter.
"Sport should be clean and fair. But in the end, the prime responsibility for sport has got to be with sports administrators," Mr Abbott said.
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"I really don't think that the prime minister of the day should be trying to micro-manage sport and the conduct of sporting codes."
