House debates Bills

Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026; Consideration in Detail

Tuesday, 18 August 2026 House of Representatives

Anika Wells

Anika Wells Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Sport

1:18 pm

I thank the member for his amendment. As I said in my second reading speech, we have significant concerns about the appropriateness of this model. When in government, the coalition also took action to ban what was then the principal form of access to foreign lotteries, and they did that in 2018. I also understand that, while the business that the member is concerned about does offer foreign lotteries, which will no longer be permitted, it also offers Australian lotteries, and those domestic lotteries will be unaffected by the changes that we are making.

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