Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026, National Self-exclusion Register (Cost Recovery Levy) Amendment Bill 2026, Interactive Gambling (Cost Recovery Levy) Bill 2026

Senator HANSON-YOUNG (South Australia—Manager of Australian Greens Business in the Senate) (18:00): The amendment before us, of course, goes to the heart of the Murphy report. All of the expertise and all of the advice to successive governments and to successive parliaments has been that if you want to limit the harm of gambling, particularly to those most vulnerable—young people and those with a gambling illness—you stop the dangerous advertising.

Senator McLachlan hit the nail on the head. This isn't about banning gambling. This is about stopping the promotion of a product that is very dangerous and very harmful to a number of Australians, just like we've done with tobacco advertising.

When they banned tobacco advertising, they didn't ban tobacco. It was about the advertising. We're not banning gambling.

We're following the advice of the experts to stop the ads. By the way, a lot of people who gamble don't like the ads either. People who are happy gambling don't like the ads either.

People who play sport think ads have ruined the sport. They've certainly ruined the enjoyment of sitting down and watching your favourite team. Of course, what has been put forward tonight, rather than a ban on gambling advertising, is this opt-out register, like a do-not-call register.

The government have called it AdStop. I've got a couple of questions to the minister. Minister, how many people are expected to use AdStop?

How many Australians does the government predict will use this register?