Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications) Share this | Hansard source

Colleagues will be aware that the government promised to have new gambling advertising rules in place for broadcast television and radio by the end of March, and this commitment has been delivered. But we're also keen to futureproof the system for a world in which online services with live sport content not covered by broadcasting codes become more prevalent. We have legislation before the Senate currently to enable ACMA to make rules to apply the same or similar restrictions to online platforms as soon as practicable. Whilst online live streams of sport today typically are simulcast from a commercial broadcaster, applying rules to online service providers will futureproof the system to ensure that gambling advertising safeguards are in place across all platforms.

I do want to acknowledge, as I touched on before, that the Gillard government did put some restrictions on live betting odds, and we are happy to be in a position to further progress gambling ad restrictions.