Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Sherry, the Assistant Treasurer. On 11 September 2007 the then opposition leader and now Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, said:

I hate poker machines and I know something of their impact on families.

Given the government has taken almost four months to table and respond to the Productivity Commission’s final report into gambling and has only responded to say, in effect, that it will consult with the states and territories on poker machines, how can the government claim that it is truly committed to reducing problem gambling?