A total of 21 parliamentarians, including Liberal MP Bridget Archer and former Labor senator Fatima Payman, have joined a push for the government to ban all gambling ads, as independent MPs push for a free vote on a total ban.
The first letter is signed by a group of Greens, the teal MPs and other lower house independents, senators Jacqui Lambie, David Pocock and Lidia Thorpe. It calls for a “blanket ban on advertisements for online gambling”.
