Daanyal Saeed

It's not really clear where they sit on this current announcement, but it's worth bearing in mind.

And again, this sort of highlights the absurdity of how long this government has taken, that they were outflanked to the left by Peter Dutton and SportsFair.

But Peter Dutton came out a long time ago, in 2023, I think, I think it was December-ish, and came out and said, we're in support of gambling advertising reform, we think it's too much.

The government could very well take coalition support for this set of reforms and take it through the Senate, but the Greens are really critical of the proposal as it stands.

Now, if you get the Greens' support, you're more or less through, but they would want to see it significantly strengthened.

The

The green spokesperson on this, Sarah Hansen-Young, is called the government squibs on this suite of reforms.

They really don't think it goes far enough.

Likewise, David Pocock, one of the three independents in the upper house, he's been one of its most vocal critics.

Lydia Thorpe, obviously an independent former Green, has previously called for a total ad ban.

Hasn't sort of said anything in detail yet.

Jackie Lambie has consistently voted in favour of gambling advertising reform.

And then One Nation is a bit of a wild card in the sense you've got four senators, but many of them are actually just never in the Senate.

So it's not super clear where One Nation stand at the moment.

Absolutely.

There was a great analysis piece by the ABC's Kyle Pollard, who's one of their digital sport editors, on this.

And he makes the point that it is absurd.

And the absurdity of it has sort of been highlighted now that this story has become a national issue.

And NRL communities, people above the Barassi line, have sort of expressed to me that

This is insane.