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

My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, many Australians have lobbied tirelessly for gambling advertising reform, so you can imagine how interested we are in today's media report that the government is set to announce some reforms. To be clear, they are only a first step, though, because they will only partly address just one of the 31 recommendations in the Murphy report. So what is the veracity of today's report and what's the government's plan to address the other 30 recommendations?

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

The government has not made any decisions. We work things through in an orderly way, as I've said to previous questions regarding gambling reform. We haven't concluded what we're doing. We've worked through and are continuing to consult appropriate interested parties, including members of the crossbench. But I've made it also very clear that my view is probably different, it's fair to say, from the member for Clark. With respect, he's long been an advocate in these issues.

I think that we need to get absolutely the balance right between people's right to have a punt and the view that I have, which is that it is too prevalent and that people, particularly young people, should be able to watch sport and not see a link between sport necessarily and gambling. We need to de-link those issues. The government continues to work on these issues. I don't know, with regard to the member for Clark's suggestion, what's been supported and what hasn't been supported. When the government makes decisions, which it makes collectively, it then announces them.