Billi FitzSimons

So I'll first go to the opposition.

The Coalition's Shadow Minister for Communications, Sarah Henderson, she criticised Labor for how long it has taken for these reforms to be announced and for it to act on gambling.

I will say that this isn't the first time that the Labor government has announced gambling reforms.

You would hear now at the end of every single gambling ad they have those new sayings at the end.

Yeah.

So this isn't the first time but specifically on limiting because that was just changing what was in the gambling ads.

But they were still there.

Exactly.

So the coalition is very critical of firstly how long it's taken and secondly they say that they introduced a similar bill to this in 2023 which Labor rejected and voted against.

So they say that this is very hypocritical from Labor.

I'll read out an exact quote.

So Sarah Henderson said...

In 2023, Labor voted against the coalition's legislation to ban gambling advertisements one hour before, during and after live sport.

Now the Prime Minister has announced a policy strikingly similar to what he once opposed.

Exactly.

So that's the coalition.

Then we have the Greens.

They also criticised the announcement saying basically that it didn't go far enough.

So Sarah Hansen Young, who's part of the Greens, said we need a complete ban of online advertising gambling.

Then if we go to advocates for gambling reform, they have also criticised it.