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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Krishani Dhanji

Albanese announces crackdown on gambling ads, but falls well short of Labor’s own calls for total ban

The government will limit gambling advertising in what it has called the “most significant reform on gambling” Australia has ever seen, but has fallen short of key recommendations from a Labor-led report handed down more than 1,000 days ago.

Gambling advertising will be banned in sports venues and capped in TV and radio broadcasts in a series of measures announced by the prime minister at the National Press Club on Thursday that advocates have warned do not go far enough.

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