Thank you so much for the welcome – and thank you to Foxtel for inviting me to celebrate 30 years. 

Thirty years ago, Foxtel launched in Australia and in our living rooms with a revolutionary idea: to watch what we want, when we want

Today that seems like a fairly ordinary idea, but back then, “on demand” meant that hoping your sibling didn't tape over your show while you were out of the house and that it might be available to you when you got back. 

“Binge-watching” meant two episodes in a row. And if you weren't home when the show was recording you had to record it on the VCR - and for those of you born after 2000, Patrick's offered to demonstrate for you what that means - well, tough luck. And that was character-building. 

But Foxtel dared to ask, what if things were different, and brought Australian TV into the future. 

Since then, Foxtel has survived dial-up internet, broadband and new streaming services. 

Not only has it survived - through FOX Sports, it's revolutionised sports coverage in Australia. 

And just like my beloved Broncos, Foxtel just keeps getting better - even if Payne Haas is, as we currently speak, moving to the PM’s team. Not that I'm dirty about it. 

I'm filthy about it. 

But I digress. 

Why is Foxtel getting better? It's because Foxtel knows when technology changes, it must change. And while technology changes, Australians don't. 

Australians love their sport. Australians love their drama. And we love saying, just one more episode, and staying up way past our bedtimes. 

Foxtel has been there for all of that. 

For the sporting moments that unite the nation - and for the ones that divide households and divide workplaces, and currently tear apart prime ministers and sport ministers.

The ability to pause live play and then rewind and watch a goal or a try over and over again. 

And while Foxtel brought some big overseas shows to our screens, you have also given us some of the very best of Australian drama. 

Aussie shows we all love like Colin from Accounts, High Country, Love Me. 

Because Australian content really matters. It’s always mattered, and it will be central to our media reform agenda. 

It connects us to who we are and it connects us to the world, and it shares our nation with the world. 

Foxtel also deserves credit for something genuinely impressive – adapting. 

Adapting to new technology, adapting to new audiences, adapting to new competition. 

And for 30 years, Foxtel has helped us ensure Australian voices stayed on screen and stayed relevant. 

So, tonight, we celebrate a company that has evolved, innovated, backed Australian stories, and survived every media trend prediction thrown at it. 

Congratulations. Happy 30th birthday, Foxtel.