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
8:56 pm
David Pocock (ACT, Independent) | Hansard source
Minister, you can't just point senators to an online report when we have a very specific question. As Pat Conaghan said, what's the point of these government inquiries? What's the point? What's the point of Peta Murphy and the committee spending so much of their time coming up with a landmark report? And what's the point of commissioning a rapid review if it says you should do what the Murphy report told you to do and then when we ask you about it you just say, 'Oh well, implementation something or other, check a website, getting the balance right.' What is the point of these reviews?
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