Daanyal Saeed

But the Murphy report said that partial bans on advertising don't work.

It's really clear about that.

It cites a fair deal of research on that.

We know that this is a partial ban.

We know that the Murphy Report called for a national regulator, and there's no mention of that.

There might well still be a response to that, but this announcement so far doesn't mention it.

There's also no mention of inducements.

So things like bonus bets and bet returns, things that sort of keep gamblers' or customers' money cycling through betting apps and betting platforms, those were recommended to be

outright banned by the Murphy Report.

There's no mention of that in this suite of reforms that the government's announced.

It's been really, really hard.

I think it does.

That's the criticism that has been put to me by advocates, by MPs, by the crossbench, by members of the Labor Party, both sort of in the parliament and outside it, within the rank and file, that are pushing for reform.

This has been a really consistent criticism that the government has a really close relationship with the gambling lobby.

And not just the gambling lobby, there are other stakeholders too that the government has close relationships with that it doesn't want to jeopardise.

So things like broadcasters that rely on the advertising revenue, things like the sporting codes themselves.

Yes, broadcasters are hooked on this as well and they've sort of flagged that there might be changes to revenue models and so on or warned or threatened that there might be changes to staff or to revenue models or to programming.

I think that's a bit of an empty threat.

A lot of these broadcasters are doing very well for themselves.

And as we speak, Peter Volandes, as the chair of the Rugby League Commission, has been giving quotes to the News Corp papers about the massive, you know, multi-billion dollar deal, the broadcast deal that he's ready to sign and has many, many suits for.