{"id":777046320,"date":"2026-08-18T11:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777046320"},"modified":"2026-08-18T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:22:28","slug":"australian-gambling-reform-bill-set-for-possible-thursday-passage-after-labor-coalition-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australian-gambling-reform-bill-set-for-possible-thursday-passage-after-labor-coalition-deal","title":{"rendered":"Australian gambling reform bill set for possible passage after Labor-Coalition deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Labor and the Coalition have agreed on key amendments, clearing the path for the reforms to pass parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia.- A tentative agreement between Labor and the Coalition has cleared the way for the government\u2019s long-contested gambling advertising reforms to potentially pass both houses of parliament by the end of the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister <strong>Anthony Albanese<\/strong> told parliament the changes would better protect Australians from inducements and direct marketing \u201cwithout preaching to the community.\u201d Opposition communications spokeswoman <strong>Sarah Henderson<\/strong> said amendments would strengthens protections for families and children, arguing that the original bill \u201cdid not go far enough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, several Coalition MPs, including Nationals backbencher Pat Conaghan, a member of a <strong>2023 inquiry <\/strong>led by the late Labor MP Peta Murphy, have vowed to vote against the amendments. Conaghan said Murphy \u201cwould be disgusted\u201d that the major parties had not adopted the inquiry\u2019s core recommendations for a full ban on gambling ads.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"see-also-container\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label\">See also:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-article\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"related-article__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/Anthony_Albanese_portrait-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"related-article__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label-strong\">See also:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australias-gambling-reform-deal-looks-more-possible-after-labor-agrees-to-make-amendments\">Australia\u2019s gambling reform deal looks more possible after Labor agrees to make amendments<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor and the Coalition have agreed on key amendments, clearing the path for the reforms to pass parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":26548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"A bipartisan agreement between Labor and the Coalition in Australia has cleared the path for gambling advertising reforms to pass parliament, aiming to enhance consumer protection against inducements and direct marketing. While the amendments strengthen safeguards for families and children, some parliamentary members express dissatisfaction, arguing the reforms do not go far enough to implement a full advertising ban.","focusai_entities":"Labor, Coalition, Anthony Albanese, Sarah Henderson, Pat Conaghan, Peta Murphy, Nationals","focusai_location":"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 (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Operator Compliance Burden?","query":"What specific operational and technological adjustments will Australian B2C operators need to implement to comply with the new direct marketing and inducement restrictions?"},{"label":"Market Revenue Impact?","query":"How might the agreed-upon advertising reforms influence GGR and NGR projections for publicly traded iGaming entities with substantial exposure to the Australian market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,24628,154,158],"tags":[289,25040,225],"class_list":["post-777046320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-highlight-of-the-week","category-legislation-news","category-slider-home","tag-australia","tag-gambling-ads-ban","tag-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777046320","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\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777046320"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777046320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777046341,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777046320\/revisions\/777046341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777046320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777046320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777046320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}