Gerard Rennick (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I totally support this Broadcasting Services Amendment (Ban on Gambling Advertisements During Live Sport) Bill 2023 today. Gambling is a scourge on this country. It always has been and it always will be. I don't necessarily disagree with Senator Cox that it doesn't go far enough, but it is a start and for that reason we should at least support it. I have to say that I was completely shocked at Senator Bilyk's comments, where she wanted to take longer to look at this bill because there might be unintended consequences from passing this bill. I'm not quite sure what the unintended consequences would be.

We have a very good case study in this country called Western Australia. They don't have poker machines. I know we're not talking about poker machines in this specific bill, but they don't have gambling at all and they seem to survive without the poker machines. Do you have online gambling?