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SenateWednesday 19 August 2026

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) (18:14): To be clear, BetStop is a very confined thing. You register yourself on BetStop, and that's that. In order for the department and your government to keep the entire internet clean of gambling ads, you're going to have to be scouring the internet day and night every day of the week.

This is how laughable this policy is. You can't explain how it actually works. You can't explain the people power it's going to require.

You can't explain how much it's going to cost. It is designed to fail. I put it to you, Minister.

This is designed to fail. I'd like to know who makes the call. Who's going to pick up the phone and call Kayo, call news.com, call Instagram, call Facebook, call Domain, call realestate.com, call Uber, call Uber Eats and call the various gaming apps and online and standalone applications?

Who is going to be on the phone making sure these companies are doing the right thing? Is that the role of ACMA?

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