Streaming services, where more than half of Australians now watch sport, will be allowed to run unlimited gambling ads during every break, any time of day. Television keeps the current rules. Streaming doesn’t. It also does nothing about sign-up bonuses like “bet $10, get $50 in bonus bets,” which researchers say are among the most effective ways to hook people into compulsive gambling.
Three years ago, an all-party parliamentary inquiry recommended something much simpler: phase out gambling advertising altogether. That recommendation was unanimous. This bill [the current govt introduced] doesn’t deliver it.
The Greens and the Coalition, who agree on almost nothing, have sent the bill to a Senate inquiry rather than wave it through. That inquiry is taking public submissions right now.
We’re building a GetUp submission made up of members’ names and comments, calling on the inquiry to recommend the full ban Murphy proposed. Add your name, and if you want to say why this matters to you, there’s space for that too.