00:00 We've been going for eight years since we first brought up this idea.
00:06 And it means that people can take control.
00:08 That if they've had enough of gambling, if it's worrying them, if their spouse is upset
00:14 with what's happening in their family, they can go press pause, they can choose their
00:19 period, say, "OK, I'm going to do three months."
00:22 Or some people say, "Gambling's just done so much harm, I'm ready, I never want to see
00:27 it again," and they can choose the forever button.
00:31 And what it means is that it stops the advertising, which is really, really important.
00:39 And it means that the gambling companies can't let them gamble.
00:43 If they go on and try, they won't be able to do it.
00:46 And it just gives people some breathing space.
00:49 We had a big inquiry that had its report a couple of months ago, and they came out saying
00:54 that we should ban all ads.
00:57 I recently went to Europe and I spoke to gambling regulators in eight countries, and they are
01:02 just way ahead of us.
01:04 Belgium has banned all ads, all inducements.
01:07 They've even banned marketing of gambling companies, sending those annoying texts to
01:13 people who are signed up.
01:14 We've got to be more ambitious, and we've got to have a national strategy.
01:18 We've got to have a minister who lives and breathes gambling policy.
01:22 And I really think we've got to defeat the self-talk that says, "Oh, it's just all too
01:26 hard and gambling's ingrained."
01:28 And all these other countries have had gambling for hundreds of years.
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