House debates

Wednesday, 21 August 2024

Questions without Notice

Gambling Advertising

2:11 pm

Photo of Zoe DanielZoe Daniel (Goldstein, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. This week a mum in my electorate emailed me: 'I am the daughter of a gambler,' she said, 'I grew up walking on eggshells. One minute, home was full of love and joy, the next uncertainty and despair.' Her father gambled away the family's life savings and then took his own life. Now with a 12-year-old son, she says of gambling ads on TV: 'It terrifies me.' Prime Minister, how would you justify only a partial gambling ad ban to this mother, who fears for her child?

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