Daanyal Saeed

Yeah, absolutely, Daniel.

It kind of blows my mind a little bit that even people who I've spoken to in the gambling industry who make their living off of this, who are absolutely incentivised in the most literal sense to continue the bombardment of gambling ads that we do have, have come out and said, and gone on the record and said, okay, it's a bit much.

And I can't think of a single other industry where we've reached a level of saturation where people employed by the industry say the advertising for their livelihood is a bit much.

Invested interest is a powerful thing.

It's extraordinary when you go too far.

We are getting the balance right, letting adults have a punt if they want to, but making sure that our children don't see betting ads everywhere they look.

Yeah, so there's a couple of top line reforms and we're going to get a better idea of them sort of in the next sitting week.

Conveniently, that'll also get overshadowed by the federal budget.

But we're looking at a restriction on gambling advertising on broadcast television to no more than three ads an hour between 6am and 8.30pm.

We will ban all gambling ads on radio during school pickup and drop off.

We're going to see a banning of gambling ads on online platforms unless you have a logged-in account over 18 and have the option to opt out of gambling advertising.

So that sounds, it's a little bit in the weeds, but there's probably some bits and pieces to work through there and some moving parts there.

We will ban cross-promotion content that mixes commentary with odds.

We'll end advertising on jerseys and jumpers and in stadiums.

And we'll ban...

But there was a report that came out in the last couple of days that said that NRL clubs will be allowed to sort of see out the duration of those deals.

So these reforms are going to kick in from the 1st of January 2027.

A lot of those gambling deals relating to uniforms and so on sort of extend beyond that and they'll be allowed to sort of see those out.

It's been really widely criticised.

It's been criticised by all sides of politics and noting that Peter Murphy's sort of committee that put this report together back in June 2023 was a bipartisan committee and had people from both sides of politics.