Andrew Wilkie (Clark, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, Sportsbet donated to the shadow minister about to become the minister responsible for online gambling, and the gambling industry has extended hospitality to the minister ever since. Sure, disclosures have been met, but clearly the practice is morally wrong and breaches 3.21 and 3.22 of the ministerial code of conduct. PM, what's to be done about it, or is the government's and the opposition's silence the return on millions of dollars of gambling donations?

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question, but it's pretty hard to argue there's silence when you're asking me a question in question time. I make that point to the member for Clark. My government is committed to donations reform. We're committed to increasing transparency, lowering disclosure thresholds and increasing the timeliness of disclosures, and the member will have the opportunity to vote on that during this term. The Special Minister of State has asked the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters to inquire into and report on the 2022 federal election, and that is one of the measures that they've been asked to look at.

My government, including the Minister for Communications, is committed to harm minimisation. We're delivering a national self-exclusion register, BetStop—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister will pause. I'll hear from the member for Clark on a point of order.

Andrew Wilkie (Clark, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Speaker, on relevance: the question very clearly goes to sections 3.21 and 3.22 of the ministerial code of conduct.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question was also about a broad issue which the Prime Minister is directly answering. He is in order, and I give him the call.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I note that in the member's question he referred to matters prior to the election. But we're delivering a national self-exclusion register, BetStop; we're progressing work around the classification of video games with gambling-like features; we're responding to recommendations from the parliamentary inquiry into the use of credit cards in online gambling; we're holding a parliamentary inquiry into online gambling, including the impacts of gambling advertising on children; and we're implementing the national consumer protection framework, including the changed guidelines that we have introduced for messaging in advertising.