Senate debates

Wednesday, 19 August 2026

Bills

Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026, National Self-exclusion Register (Cost Recovery Levy) Amendment Bill 2026, Interactive Gambling (Cost Recovery Levy) Bill 2026; In Committee

8:51 pm

Photo of Paul ScarrPaul Scarr (Queensland, Liberal Party) | Hansard source

Well, Minister, I suspect the support workers are going to be overwhelmed, trying to help people who are suffering gambling addiction. They're already overwhelmed by people suffering gambling harm. Why wouldn't you have an independent audit system? At the moment, ASIC audits companies with respect to their compliance, the ACCC engages in audits—a whole range of regulators. Workplace health and safety regulators go onto sites and carry out inspections. Why wouldn't you have a system where you had a regulator checking on the gambling companies to make sure that they were appropriately implementing this system? Why put it on the victim who's suffering the harm?

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