A plan to ban ads for online gambling within three years has already come under fire, with the crossbench urging the government to act sooner, and television and gambling industries raising the possibility of compensation or a watering down of the proposed ban.
On Wednesday a parliamentary inquiry called for the phased introduction of a comprehensive ban on the ads, moving through the opposition’s preferred model for a ban during game time and an hour either side, towards a ban between 6am and 10pm, and finally a total ban.
