{"id":777019849,"date":"2024-10-15T09:47:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T12:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777019849"},"modified":"2026-04-22T05:09:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:09:50","slug":"australian-greens-to-introduce-bill-to-ban-gambling-ads-across-all-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australian-greens-to-introduce-bill-to-ban-gambling-ads-across-all-platforms","title":{"rendered":"Australian Greens introduce bill to ban gambling ads across all platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposed bill aims to ban gambling ads on TV, radio, print and online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia.- The Australian Greens party has submitted a bill to the senate calling for <strong>a ban on all gambling ads in the country<\/strong>. The bill\u00a0would ban gambling ads on TV, radio, print and online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a statement from the Greens, the move was prompted by &#8220;continued delays by the government&#8221; on\u00a0introducing the <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australian-house-committee-recommends-total-ban-on-ads-for-online-gambling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">total ban<\/a>\u00a0as recommended in a report by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs led by<strong>\u00a0Labor MP Peta Murphy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senator<strong> Sarah Hanson-Young<\/strong>, Greens Spokesperson for Communications, said: &#8220;Time is up and the public is sick of the excuses and the delays. The Government clearly doesn&#8217;t have the guts to stand up to the bookies and ban gambling ads so, today, the Greens will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Problem gambling ruins lives and <strong>Australians lose more per capita to gambling than anywhere else in the world<\/strong>. The evidence from experts and the overwhelming majority of Australians (7\/10) is clear: gambling ads cause significant harm and they must be banned, just like tobacco ads. The Prime Minister said recently that banning gambling ads was the \u2018easy option\u2019 to reduce gambling harm. We agree and we call on Labor and Liberal to back our bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;These ads are crucial to the bookies\u2019 business model as they fuel the human misery of problem gambling. People are sick of having gambling ads rammed down their throats during family time when we are watching the footy.\u00a0Labor and Liberal will have to stop hedging their bets when my bill comes for a vote in the Senate.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Communications minister <strong>Michelle Rowland<\/strong> has said the Labor Party would announce a plan before the end of the year but didn&#8217;t give details. The current parliamentary calendar only provides for 11 sitting days in the Senate until the end of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In September, Sky News political editor Andrew Clennell claimed the government of prime minister\u00a0Anthony Albanese was reportedly planning to implement <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/gambling-ads-in-australia-reports-suggest-partial-ban-on-the-way\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a ban on digital gambling ads<\/a>\u00a0and a prohibition on TV ads for one hour before and after sports broadcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proposed bill aims to ban gambling ads on TV, radio, print and online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777019851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Australian Greens party has introduced a bill to the Senate proposing a comprehensive ban on all gambling advertisements across TV, radio, print, and online platforms. This legislative push stems from perceived government inaction on recommendations to mitigate problem gambling harm, which the Greens assert is exacerbated by current advertising practices. The move signals increasing political pressure on the Labor government to implement stricter regulatory controls on iGaming marketing within the Australian market.","focusai_entities":"Australian Greens, Peta Murphy, Sarah Hanson-Young, Michelle Rowland, Anthony Albanese, Andrew Clennell, Labor Party, Liberal Party, House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs, Sky News","focusai_location":"Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (1.0), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (1.0), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on Operator Valuations?","query":"What is the projected impact on the enterprise valuation and revenue multiples of publicly traded iGaming operators with significant exposure to the Australian market, should a comprehensive advertising ban be enacted?"},{"label":"Regulatory Compliance Challenges?","query":"How would a total advertising ban necessitate a re-engineering of existing B2C licensing conditions and regulatory compliance frameworks for operators, particularly concerning responsible gambling messaging and player acquisition channels?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,154,158],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777019849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-legislation-news","category-slider-home","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777019849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777020279,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019849\/revisions\/777020279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777019851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777019849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777019849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777019849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}