Clare Armstrong
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Aug
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They were meeting to talk about a range of different bills, but gambling kind of became a big focus of that because of how messy this process has ended up becoming.
I've seen it described by I think it was my colleague Mel Clark as there being a generous way and a a less generous way to interpret the Prime Minister's position.
The generous way is he is trying to balance a lot of competing interests for better or for worse.
Freak to air media companies who are pretty integral still to our democracy, as well as just the existence of the sporting codes, was all dependent on advertising, of which gambling revenue is clearly a major factor.
So there is a a desire to sort of address the harm.
Without completely decimating those sectors.
There's a secondary consideration, which is that of course gambling remains legal in Australia.
The Prime Minister frequently talks about it's still okay to have a punt.
He doesn't want to be seen to be launching some big culture war against the industry.
We've already seen Pauline Hansen, the One Nation leader, gravitate that way.
I had a
Labor source tell me last week that the last thing they want is Pauline Hansen running around the suburbs saying that, you know, this is just the latest in a line of sort of nanny state measures, be it, you know, forcing someone to log in to watch porn or restricting gambling, that they don't want that message pervasive in the community.
So there's sort of the political and economic considerations.
The less generous interpretation is, of course, that the gambling companies, that the the sporting codes in particular, even the media companies, are very powerful lobbyists.
They obviously want to maintain their business model.
And there is certainly a belief that's been prosecuted by the likes of the Green spokeswoman on this issue, Senator Sarah Hansen-Young, that the Prime Minister has been quite lenient toward that lobby.
The government would completely reject that and say that they've got a balance here.
But I think on an issue like this you are always going to have people that
want things to go further and faster and for various reasons the Prime Minister has really resisted that for literally years.
Yeah, so the bill broadly tackles advertising and specifically looks at where children are most likely to be exposed to advertising.
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