The House of Representatives social policy and legal affairs committee chair, the Labor MP Peta Murphy, said this would “give major sports and broadcasters time to find alternative advertisers and sponsors, while preventing another generation from experiencing escalating gambling harm”. It said the ban should be implemented in four phases: first, prohibiting inducements and social media and online platforms, and ads during school drop off and pick-up times second, banning “all online gambling advertising and commentary on odds, during and an hour either side of a sports broadcast”, on uniforms and in stadiums third, banning broadcast ads between 6.00 am and 10.00 pm and then finally a “by the end of year three, prohibition on all online gambling advertising and sponsorship”. Of the 31 recommendations in the report “You win some, you lose more”, released on Wednesday, the call for a phased, comprehensive ban on online gambling advertising within three years is the most consequential.
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