While the country’s political journalists were under lock and key at the budget lock-up all yesterday afternoon, the Albanese government formally responded to the 2023 You Win Some, You Lose More report into online gambling harms.
Much has already been made of the prolonged timeline on which the Albanese government has been dragged, kicking and screaming, to any reforms in this sector — but it’s worth pressing the point again. What is known as the Murphy report, courtesy of being chaired by late Labor MP Peta Murphy, whose dying wish was for expeditious and comprehensive reform on gambling advertising, was presented to government in June 2023, after first being ordered back in September 2022.