David Pocock

One, thanks for what you're doing, pushing for a gambling ad ban, pushing for banning inducements.

Two, I've got to tell you my story.

It's always about the shame that people feel about their gambling addiction.

You watch the ads, this is about having fun with your mates, having a win, enjoying sport, being an Aussie larrikin.

The reality is people lying in bed at 3 AM, scrolling their phones, chasing losses, getting an inducement, getting back on the bandwagon.

It's devastating, and we need an evidence-based public health response to this.

That is the Murphy Report, and yet we've got a government that is captured by vested interests.

Well, they're ever-present.

They're here a lot.

They've, in the past, paid to be part of the parliamentary sports club so that they can come and play parliamentary sport in the morning.

I took exception to the fact that the Parliament House Sports Club is sponsored by the gambling lobby and was kicked out of the sports club for saying that.

Apparently, I've been invited back, but I haven't actually heard

heard from them.

So it's just totally normal.

It's mostly non-contact.

But they're here all the time, but we don't actually really know because we've got a system here where ministerial diaries aren't routinely released.

So it's really only through FOIs or Russian documents in the Senate.

But a lot of those don't actually get complied with in full by the government.

We're dealing with a very secretive government.

I don't think this is just the gambling lobby, though.