{"id":777021113,"date":"2024-11-29T09:14:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T12:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777021113"},"modified":"2026-04-22T03:43:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:43:02","slug":"australian-greens-blast-labor-for-voting-down-gambling-ad-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australian-greens-blast-labor-for-voting-down-gambling-ad-ban","title":{"rendered":"Australian Greens blast Labor for voting down gambling ad ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Greens have accused Labor of &#8220;giving gambling ads for Christmas&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.- <strong>The Australian Greens party <\/strong>has issued a statement accusing the Labor party and <strong>Peter Dutton<\/strong>, the current leader of the opposition, of &#8220;giving gambling ads for Christmas&#8221; after a bill to <strong>ban gambling ads<\/strong> was rejected in the Senate yesterday (November 28).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Greens had submitted the Communications Legislation Amendment (Regional Broadcasting Continuity) Bill 2024 last month prompted by \u201ccontinued delays by the government\u201d on&nbsp;introducing the&nbsp;<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> recommended in a report by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sarah Hanson-Young, <\/strong>Senator for South Australia said: &#8220;Labor\u2019s giving gambling ads this Christmas when they could have backed the Greens amendment last night to ban them before the holidays.&nbsp;Labor and Dutton have failed families on gambling ads. Addiction, family breakdowns and financial hardship will be worse this summer in Australia because the Albanese Government has sold out to Sportsbet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe facts are clear: Australians lose more per capita to gambling addiction than any nation on earth. Expert evidence and 70 per cent of Australians support a full gambling ad ban, but Labor and Liberal are addicted to the donations, dinners and dirty deals with the gambling lobby. Instead of acting on the well-established recommendations to ban gambling ads, they have rushed through a knee-jerk social media ban without evidence or due process.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Greens plan to reintroduce their bill when parliament resumes in February. Hanson-Young called on prime minister <strong>Anthony Albanese <\/strong>and opposition leader Peter Dutton to support it and &#8220;stop selling out to Sportsbet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this week, communications minister <strong>Michelle Rowland<\/strong> also <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australian-gambling-ad-ban-will-have-to-wait-until-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">withdrew a proposed bill on misinformation<\/a> after failing to secure support in the Senate. Employment minister&nbsp;<strong>Murray Watt<\/strong>&nbsp;confirmed to reporters that \u201cThere is simply is not going to be enough time this week to pass that legislation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have accused Labor of &#8220;giving gambling ads for Christmas&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":15797,"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 accused the Labor government and opposition leader Peter Dutton of rejecting a bill to ban gambling advertisements, citing public support and the societal costs of gambling addiction. The Greens plan to reintroduce the legislation in February, intensifying the political debate over regulatory compliance and the influence of the gambling lobby on policy. This legislative setback underscores the ongoing tension between industry interests and public health concerns within the Australian iGaming landscape.","focusai_entities":"Australian Greens party, Labor party, Peter Dutton, Sarah Hanson-Young, Anthony Albanese, Michelle Rowland, Murray Watt, Sportsbet, House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs","focusai_location":"Australia, South Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (1.0), product_ux (0.7), marketing_crm (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Ad Ban Likelihood?","query":"What is the projected legislative trajectory for the Greens' proposed gambling advertising ban in Australia, and what are the key political and lobbying dynamics influencing its potential passage in February?"},{"label":"Operator Impact Analysis?","query":"How would a comprehensive ban on gambling advertisements impact the GGR, NGR, and player acquisition costs for major iGaming operators within the Australian market, and what strategic adjustments are anticipated?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,154,158],"tags":[23911],"class_list":["post-777021113","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\/777021113","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=777021113"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777021113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777021129,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777021113\/revisions\/777021129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777021113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777021113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777021113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}