The Govt's crackdown on gambling ads
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Good morning and welcome to The Daily Oz. It's Tuesday the 14th of April. I'm Billie Fitzsimons. I'm Zara Seidler. In case you missed it, the federal government announced it intends to introduce a ban on several forms of gambling ads. It will mean no gambling ads on players' uniforms, in stadiums or with celebrities. But there has been a lot of criticism about it. We'll tell you what you need to know about the new reforms and why they have been so controversial in today's podcast. But before we get there, here is a quick message from TDA's new news editor, Adela.
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Billie, there has been so much news over the past couple of weeks that it has been almost impossible to surface news stories because I feel like we've had the war and we've had fuel and there have been really dominant narratives. One story that we were discussing that we felt might have slipped under the radar was the fact that the government announced new gambling reform.
What recent gambling ad reforms has the Federal Government proposed?
I think it must have been a fortnight ago now?
It was earlier this month.
Yeah. And so today, I think let's catch everyone up to speed, understand what everyone's saying about these reforms and what they actually are. In order to do that, though, I think that it is helpful to paint a bit of a picture about the state of gambling in Australia, because I think once you understand that, you understand why there is so much pressure to act.
Yeah, every time we have spoken about gambling on the podcast over the years, it always shocks me the fact that Australia has the highest gambling losses per person in the world. So we are the worst in the world when it comes to gambling and that is why it is such a huge issue and why there has been so much pressure on the government, not just the government today but on governments in the past as well, to act on limiting how much gambling ads there are out there. And also what's surprising to learn is that New South Wales in particular has the worst losses per capita in Australia, which therefore means in the world.
It is pretty staggering when you think about that and the numbers themselves. What sort of numbers are we talking about here?
So I have it in front of me. So a report published by the government in 2023 says recent estimates suggest that Australians lose approximately $25 billion on legal forms of gambling every year, which represents the largest per capita losses in the world, as I said.
And thinking about the fact that like Las Vegas exists... Yes. ...and we're still somehow... Worse than that. Worse than that. It is, yeah. It's pretty unbelievable. So there is clearly a challenge that has been identified... ...through these statistics and a pressure on government to respond... These reforms have been a long time coming, though. So talk me through the timeline of when gambling reform was, I guess, first put on the agenda to now and how the government's actually responded.
So I would say it's been on the agenda for a long time, for many, many years. But it was in June 2023 that a parliamentary committee released the final report from its inquiry into the impacts of online gambling. Yes. I'm just sorry. I took a deep breath to interrupt you there.
Just if anyone's not across what a parliamentary committee actually is. So that's a committee that is made up of members from across the political spectrum.
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