Clare Armstrong
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first heard Apr 2026
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Yeah, look, Luke's evidence in particular, I think, really laid out what many have been trying to explain, which is not just that gambling it can be harmful, but that there are examples of the industry
really going above and beyond to foster relationships, to build that kind of connection between people who clearly on paper look to be problem gamblers who are spending and losing tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars.
And his evidence about building this relationship with the VIP account managers who were assigned to essentially kind of wine and dine him and make sure that he was, you know, happy with his gambling activities had gone so far into essentially something illegal, which was to offer to arrange him access to drugs.
Yeah, so the denials from Sports Bat and Tab related to a separate allegation made under privilege by Tim Costello, who is a gambling alliance reform advocate.
And he alleged that a a person he'd been talking to had been offered similar incentives like the ones that Luke talked about.
I think what's important to sort of understand in all of this is when we talk about legislating against inducements, which is what the Greens and the Coalition and others are pushing for.
They're talking about something that can be, yes, a very high-level thing like offered race day tickets or tickets to the footy in a in a nice exclusive box.
That is sort of at the upper end of how some of these big high rollers are sometimes managed, but it can trickle all the way down to something as basic as, you know, the day before a big footy match, someone getting a text saying,
Hey, big day tomorrow.
Uh if you deposit fifty dollars into your betting account, we will match that or we'll match it by fifty percent.
Yeah, so he didn't declare that um in the actual inquiry and there's obviously differences of opinion about whether he should or shouldn't done that.
I've spoken to Luke several times.
For him it was definitely an oversight, but not something that he was trying to hide.
There was a little bit of the industry not playing the ball, playing the man, and trying to discredit a witness rather than address the broader issue that I've talked about here, which is whether these inducements that are currently legal are still predatory and maybe something that the Commonwealth needs to address, although I should also add
This also falls under the jurisdiction of states and territories.
So even as we talk about it as simply as just dealing with inducements, it's actually quite a complex issue.
Yeah, so off the back of that Senate inquiry, as you said, we saw Sarah Henderson come out and at least put a sort of flag in the ground saying, as it's currently stands, we don't support this bill.
And I think that that has, you know, I don't think Labour expected the whole thing to be rubber stamped, but it's made it a lot more complicated.
And I think that's part of the reason.
Why it became a topic of discussion in a meeting between the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader Angus Taylor yesterday.
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