Raff Ciccone (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The chair of that committee, and the committee, have undertaken that inquiry in a comprehensive way. Everyone in this place knows that reform is needed, but it's also difficult. If we do get it wrong there will be consequences—as the coalition did back in 2018. There were some reforms passed through this parliament but, to be honest, they didn't really have the impact and the effect that I guess you'd hoped for when you were last in government. That's probably why you're coming back to this place now with this piece of legislation, to try and get it through the parliament very quickly without any proper review or proper scrutiny.

Just because we're waiting on the recommendations from this committee doesn't mean that this government has also been sitting still. There have been a number of reforms that make sense; they've already had broad support and the government has committed to them. This includes banning credit cards for online gambling. This is very much a commonsense policy which means people aren't gambling with money that they don't have. I think most Australians would agree that if you're gambling with a credit card then you probably shouldn't be gambling at all. As I said earlier—