{"id":853605,"date":"2026-08-13T09:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/853605\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T09:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:20:12","slug":"australia-news-as-it-happened-thousands-of-students-walk-out-of-class-in-protest-of-one-nation-pm-has-met-zero-gambling-lobbyists-since-unveiling-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/853605\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news as it happened: Thousands of students walk out of class in protest of One Nation; PM has met \u2018zero\u2019 gambling lobbyists since unveiling reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had met \u201czero\u201d representatives from the gambling industry since announcing Labor\u2019s gambling reforms in response to a question from Greens MP Elizabeth Watson-Brown about lobbyists.<\/p>\n

\"Labor\u2019sLabor\u2019s gambling reforms are expected to be finalised next week. Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n

\u201cI get that some people come to this issue from different perspectives, but rather than have a debate about the substance of the issue, to go to people\u2019s motives is, I think, demeaning of the role of this parliament,\u201d Albanese said.<\/p>\n

He said he was engaging with parliamentarians across the political spectrum and had had Opposition Leader Angus Taylor in his office \u201cmore this week than I went into the prime minister\u2019s office as leader of the opposition in three years\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese issues are complex,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are issues of foreign engagement as well. The idea that gambling is an issue that just occurs on free-to-air TV, or just occurs in one area, is just not right. The idea that betting on sports is the major gambling addiction in Australia is absolutely false.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea as well that these sporting codes are somehow evil, I reject. Sporting codes do a fantastic job of engaging young people, in particular, being a binding force for people\u2019s identity with their local communities, and are really important.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the Labor Party\u2019s expanded policy platform would influence the changes, which he said would be finalised next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he had met \u201czero\u201d representatives from the gambling industry since announcing Labor\u2019s gambling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-853605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}