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Australia news live: partial gambling ad bans ‘just don’t work’, MP warns; McCarthy says PM’s Makarrata comments ‘taken further’ than intended



Independent Kate Chaney says normalisation of gambling in sport ‘a massive problem I’m hearing from constituents’. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastFor more on this, Daniel Hurst looked into the issue yesterday. A spokesperson for the communications minister, Michelle Rowland, had said the government was “firmly committed to minimising harms from online wagering”.The government continues to engage with stakeholders regarding the recommendations from the online wagering inquiry as we formulate our response.I hope that’s not the case. I hope the long consultation is because the government’s actually going to do the right thing and make gambling ads history, just like we did with tobacco. We live in hope it’s not too late, but the rumors are not encouraging. Continue reading…



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Publish date : 2024-08-05 01:04:08

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