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) (18:51): All of those indicators, Minister, are indicators that somebody is already addicted—that the gambling companies have already got to them, that they have already been groomed, that they have already been preyed upon and that life is not good. What an absolute failure.

The gambling companies can groom and prey on young men, young women and people who can't afford to be gambling their weekly earnings, and the only indicators that they should be flagged for not being induced, coached in or groomed any further are those that show they have already been preyed upon and are already addicted. It fundamentally misunderstands the business model of the gambling companies.

They use inducements to groom gamblers to make them into addicts. Once they're addicts, maybe they will get a red flag. It beggars belief that the government tonight is asking the Australian people to believe that this gambling bill and these measures are worthy of any sort of praise.

No wonder the late Peta Murphy's own husband has called it for what it is. It falls well short of anything that's required.