Bill
Broadcasting Services Amendment (Prohibition of Gambling Advertisements) Bill 2024
lapsed, as at 2025-03-28.
- Sponsor
- Zoe Daniel
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-08-19
- second reading — 2024-08-19
- other — 2025-03-28
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2024-08-19.
This bill is part of a package that would prohibit gambling advertisements on certain TV, radio and their streaming services.
The ban would apply to broadcasts covered by the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 and be enforced by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.
The explanatory memorandum says current restrictions have loopholes and that surveys show three quarters of Australians support a ban.
- The bill would ban gambling ads on certain television and radio services.
- It would also ban gambling ads on the streaming outlets of those services.
- The ban aims to end the use of sporting broadcasts to promote gambling.
Broadcasters, streaming outlets, and viewers of television and radio services.
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