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) (19:28): I might try and help the minister out here. ACMA's job, under your laws that you're putting through today, is to oversee the advertising, the communications element. But ACMA is not the body that registers the gambling company.

So ACMA can have a whole list of fines—I doubt they will, by the way; they can't seem to fine anyone. Let's just say ACMA do find Sportsbet in breach of the law and fine them, ACMA can't do anything to restrict Sportsbet's licence. Maybe they'd fine them 10 times, a hundred times or a thousand times.

But they can't shut the gambling company down. They've got no power to regulate what the gambling company actually does. That is all left to the NT commission.

I want to know whether the government thinks the NT commission is sufficient for holding the gambling companies to account. It has got nothing to do with ACMA.