Twenty-one crossbenchers have signed a letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese calling for a legislated “blanket ban on advertisements for online gambling”, arguing that “the reform package currently being discussed with stakeholders seems designed to prioritise broadcast media sustainability over public health concerns”.
Signatories include the teal independents, the Greens, Senator David Pocock, Senator Jacqui Lambie, former Labor senator Fatima Payman, Green-turned-independent Lidia Thorpe, Indi MP Helen Haines, independent for Clark Andrew Wilkie, Centre Alliance MP Rebekha Sharkie and Liberal MP for Bass Bridget Archer, with Archer the only current major party MP represented on the list.
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