QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE: TAKE NOTE OF ANSWERS

Senator HANSON-YOUNG (South Australia—Manager of Australian Greens Business in the Senate) (16:04): I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Wong) to a question without notice I asked today relating to gambling. I want to put it on the record very clearly that there was a refusal from the government to even take the question that I asked of the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Wong.

The government has been so cowardly on this current push for gambling legislation. My question was about the recommendations put forward by the Murphy review. The Murphy review called for a ban on gambling advertising.

The government has failed to deliver that. The Murphy review called for an immediate and complete ban on inducements. The government has failed on that.

The Murphy review called for a national regulator, and the government has failed to implement that. When I asked what the Leader of the Government in the Senate thought the late Peta Murphy would say, the government had no answer—crickets. It's an uncomfortable question, yes, but it's a very, very important one.

They were too cowardly to even take the question, let alone answer it. The Labor Party was too cowardly to take the question but has taken millions of dollars in donations from the gambling lobby in recent years, not counting the free dinners and the free tickets to sporting events and corporate boxes. It is time that the Labor Party put themselves on the Do Not Call Register and stopped taking inducements from gambling company and industry.

The Labor Party should rule themselves out of further inducements.