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) (18:23): That would be true if any of it were actually doable, but we've just discovered that you don't even know how much any of this is going to cost. It's laughable to think it can be implemented. And, of course, this is the gambling industry that has spent years creating a business model that is all about deceiving people and sucking them in.

The biggest suckers of all seem to be the Albanese government. I want to come back to my question about inducements. It feels to me that the government has fundamentally misunderstood the business model of the gambling companies and how they use inducements, because they use inducements to get people addicted.

Their whole process is to induce people into gambling more, taking bigger risks and feeling special because they're doing it, even when they're losing: 'Come back for more, come back for more, come back for more.' It is an addictive business plan. That is the point. How on earth do you expect the gambling industry to identify the 'red flag' customers?

Do they wait until they're addicted or do they flag them beforehand?