David Pocock (ACT, Independent) | Hansard source

I really commend these amendments and Senator Hanson-Young's work on them. As we heard during the Senate inquiry, this is an outfit in the NT that has no full-time staff. And the head of the NT Wagering Commission had to admit that he'd received hospitality from the gambling industry. But he promised he wouldn't do it again!

Senator Chisholm tries to tell us that the ACMA will take over some of the enforcement. Yet the Albanese Labor government is not providing any additional resources to the ACMA to do that. They tried to say, 'Oh well; there'll be a cost-recovery model for the ads,' or whatever it is—the 'do not call' register, and duplicate for online. I'm sure that will be a raging success, based on people's experience with the 'do not call' register! But when it actually comes to enforcing the register online: zero additional staff.

This is insanity, if, as a country, we think we're going to solve this and we just throw away evidence based policy. We take the Murphy report and we rip it up, like this, and say: 'Oh well; we're just going to do our own thing. We're not going to implement evidence based policy.' Minister, what's the justification for not having a national regulator, given that so many of the things you've said tonight point to the need for one?