00:00Among the organisations that have signed on is NSW domestic violence organisations, public
00:09health officials.
00:13What we know is that Christmas intensifies that sense of am I loved, am I wanted, do
00:20I have anyone who actually will invite me or have I got strained relations and anxiety
00:27really is now exploited by a phone in our hands, the betting apps, the sports bettors
00:37are betting not just on sport but they're betting on current events, elections, so suddenly
00:43you really neutralise the anxiety by more gambling.
00:48Gambling actually impacts every aspect of life.
00:53We know that if there's gambling in a family there's three times more likely domestic violence
00:57one of the great scourges we're trying to defeat.
01:01We know that when you're anxious about the shopping bill, electricity bill, paying the
01:06mortgage or the rent there is this need to solve the problem by actually having a flutter
01:14trying to gamble and you promise bonus incentives, money back incentives if you bet.
01:22We know that if you actually have a win on sports betting they slow you down, if you
01:26actually are losing you get more incentives to keep betting.
01:31So it profoundly affects the cost of living crisis for so many people.
01:36When we see parents particularly another gambling ad on TV, 18 months after Peter Murphy's report
01:43we have a collective psychic vomit.
01:45We say how is this still going on?
01:48We've expressed particularly in the Murphy review that we want a ban, 72% want a total
01:55ban phased in over three years.
01:57Look, in two days it's the 12 month anniversary of Peter Murphy's death.
02:02I know her and knew her and her widower Rod and she was one of the finest, bravest parliamentarians
02:11we had.
02:12I am very, very frustrated that we have not had a response to her inquiry that was multi-partisan
02:21in the recommendations and within almost six weeks we can get through world first legislation
02:28on a social media ban, which I support.
02:31But the same anxiety parents have about their kids on social media is precisely the same
02:36anxiety about their kids with gambling apps, their kids seeing gambling ads, them having
02:42to explain to their 10 year olds what a multi is.
02:46It is precisely the same anxiety, but we can't get movement there because very powerful
02:51people like Peter Vlandius of New South Wales Racing and Rugby is well, frankly elbows one
02:57of his best mates and the vested interests really have blocked this when it should have
03:03been legislated by now.
03:06What the difference is when they use the code word complexity is that the traditional media
03:12in Australia, seven with all the AFL sports betting ads, nine with all the NRL sports
03:17betting ads, Foxtel with sports betting ads, they were cheering the social media ban because
03:24it was Facebook and Meta and X.
03:27They are the ones who are benefiting from the sports betting ads.
03:33The complexity is the government won't actually stand up to them and to the AFL and NRL.
03:40That's what the complexity is.
03:41It's no more complex than that because we have a number of European nations that have
03:46banned the ads.
03:48It's working saying children shouldn't say that complexity is just an excuse for fear
03:54of vested interests.
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