Bill
Interactive Gambling Amendment (Ban Gambling Ads) Bill 2024
before parliament, as at 2025-07-23.
- Sponsor
- Hanson-Young
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-10-09
- second reading — 2024-10-09
- second reading — 2025-02-05
- other — 2025-07-21
- other — 2025-07-23
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 2024-10-09.
The bill would ban all online gambling advertisements on television, radio, online and in print.
The ban would be phased in over three years, with the Australian Communications and Media Authority making rules for each stage.
Phase one would ban inducements and ads on online platforms, during news and current affairs, and on commercial radio during school pickup times.
- The bill inserts a new part into the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 to define and prohibit online gambling advertising.
- It gives the Australian Communications and Media Authority power to make rules for the ban's staged implementation.
- It allows people to complain about breaches of the advertising rules and lets the ACMA investigate those breaches.
Australian media companies, broadcasters, online platforms, gambling operators, and the public, especially children and vulnerable Australians.
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