David Pocock

Yeah, there's plenty of conversations going on all the time.

I mean, this is something... And you're open to this?

Yeah, I'm always happy to chat about the future of our country.

I genuinely do think it's cowardly to try and slip it out when there's less attention.

And I said it was disrespectful because they didn't even respond to these recommendations.

They just said, yeah, we've noted this and we're doing something else.

I think they should at least tell us why they don't think we need something like a regulator.

Yeah, very suspicious of their timing.

After three years, the PM announced publicly what they were going to do in terms of a policy response the day before the Easter break.

Then the one day of the year where basically every journalist in Canberra is locked up in a room with budget papers without their phone, they decide, well, we're going to respond to this report.

Respond is generous because they didn't actually respond to any recommendations, they just noted them.

Well, I think they're genuinely embarrassed about it.

And there's a lot of pressure from backbenchers.

It does not do the Murphy Report justice.

As I said, they didn't even respond to individual recommendations.

And what they've said that they're going to do, this partial ban, some money for an ad education campaign, and then cracking down on illegal offshore gambling,

goes nowhere near the central recommendations and is so out of step with what the vast majority of Australians want.

There was a poll that came out the same day they released it.

It was like 77% of Australians back a full gambling ad ban and 80% of Labor voters.

So of course you're just going to try and squeak this thing out during budget lock-up and just hope that there isn't much scrutiny of it.