Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Last week I visited Gray Street Primary School in Hamilton to talk to them about the responsibilities of being a member of parliament. The previous week, they'd had the mock state parliament travel to Hamilton, where they got to debate a bill, and, as fortune would have it, the bill that they debated was about banning gambling advertising during sporting events. They had a very good discussion about this, and overwhelmingly, in the end, the students in this mock parliament thought it was a very good idea that a bill be introduced to ban gambling ads during sporting events.

I said to the students that I was very keen to make sure that their voice was heard in the federal parliament, where we could try and see this become a reality. So I use the Gray Street Primary School years 5s and 6s as an example of why the Prime Minister and the government should act to ban gambling advertising during sporting events. They put compelling cases as to why this should happen.

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Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

We can do it in a bipartisan fashion, and I'm glad all those opposite agree with me.