Labor minister tells ABC’s Q+A that he is ‘not convinced that complete prohibition works’
Bill Shorten has argued against a total ban on gambling ads, saying ‘free-to-air media is under massive attack by Facebook completely disrupted by the internet’.Bill Shorten has argued against a total ban on gambling ads, saying ‘free-to-air media is under massive attack by Facebook completely disrupted by the internet’.
Shorten said the problems the government is trying to solve is “we don’t want to normalise gambling to our kids you don’t want to be deluged in sport”.during sports broadcasts and an hour either side in 2023 – but said the government can “do better than one hour before, during and after” matches. “We got ourselves in this wicked situation where now some of the free-to-air media need gambling ad revenue … in order just to stay afloat,” he said.
On Monday, a Labor backbench committee discussed the gambling ad restrictions, with several MPs expressing the view the government had not gone far enough.
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