Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026

Ms WELLS (Lilley—Minister for Sport and Minister for Communications) (16:39): I thank the member for Indi for moving these amendments. The government will not support these amendments. The government shares the objective of reducing gambling harm and ensuring that Australians have access to transparent information about wagering services and their impacts.

That is precisely why the government has brought forward this bill. The gambling reform bill introduces significant new restrictions on wagering advertising, strengthens ACMA's compliance and enforcement powers and expands the tools available to regulators to address the gambling harm. We have been clear we take seriously our responsibility to protect children from the harms of gambling.

We have supported, like you mentioned, an amendment to ban wagering advertising content during any program principally directed at children and during programs classified as G or lower during times when children are likely to be watching. The bill delivers substantial reforms that will reduce gambling harm, strengthen consumer protections and improve regulatory oversight.

Question negatived.