How gambling companies are copying the Big Tobacco playbook in Australian sport
- Written by Carolyn Holbrook, Associate Professor in History, Deakin University
In June 2023, Labor MP Peta Murphy presented a report to the Albanese government recommending a ban on gambling advertising due to the grave social and financial harms caused by gambling ads online, on TV and at sporting venues.
So far the Albanese government has refused to act on the Murphy report.
This is despite the public emphatically agreeing...
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