Michelle Rowland (Greenway, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Communications) Share this | Hansard source

As we work through this as an orderly cabinet government that consults with people, we will ensure that we satisfy three key areas. Firstly, we'll ensure that children are protected. Secondly, we'll break that nexus between sport and online wagering, because we know that under the previous government—and this goes to the issue of effectiveness—when they tinkered with these rules it resulted in an increase in advertising. We will be forward-looking and comprehensive. We also want to ensure that we address that particular cohort that is at risk, which is young men, who are being targeted with that advertising to a saturation level.

We are determined to get this right. We are determined that not only will this complement the many efforts that we have made in this area, including the implementation of BetStop, which has seen over 20,000 people self-exclude themselves. This is going to the issue that we had to pick this up from the national consumer protection framework. It was not done. We've picked all these things up, including the wagering ban and making sure that the Stevens review, which had been buried under the previous government, was implemented. We will get this right, we will get this done and it will have a measurable difference on gambling harms in this country.

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