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

Albanese calls gambling reform ‘most significant’ Australia has seen but steps back from implementing all 31 recommendations of landmark 2023 report Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast 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. Anthony Albanese has been under pressure to respond to a landmark report led by the late Labor MP Peta Murphy that was handed to the government in June 2023 and contained 31 recommendations, including a phased-out ban of all forms of online gambling advertising. Capped to three ads an hour on broadcast television between 6am and 8:30pm; Banned on radio during school drop off and pick-up times; Banned from online platforms unless a user over 18 has