Elizabeth Watson-Brown (Ryan, Australian Greens) | Hansard source

Labor MPs were sitting around a table with Sportsbet at the Midwinter Ball last night, and this morning they introduced gambling reform designed to appease the gambling lobby. Gambling is a multibillion-dollar industry built off the losses of everyday people. People are losing their livelihoods and their lives over this. The government is too close to the gambling industry, and these laws are not a serious response to the scale of gambling harm in Australia. There's no national regulator in these laws. Remember, reporting from last year revealed that the industry is effectively regulated by six people in the Northern Territory, most of whom have huge conflicts of interest. They're not fixing that with this bill.

They're selling out our kids. An arbitrary number of three gambling ads an hour is apparently OK. Then they'll go to bed at 8:30, right? It is very realistic to expect that kids won't stay up to watch their favourite team. Kids will grow up thinking the link between gambling and sports is totally normal, and they've failed to do anything about inducements which are truly insidious methods the gambling companies use to relentlessly target addicts for everything they have. The government should be ashamed of themselves.

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