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‘Small and underwhelming’: Albanese’s gambling reforms won’t do much to reduce harm

By Samantha Thomas, Professor of Public Health, Deakin University
Hannah Pitt, Senior Research Fellow – Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University

More than 1,000 days after the release of the Murphy report, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has finally announced decisive action on tackling gambling advertising in Australia.

In mid-2023, the late Labor MP Peta Murphy presented a report that recommended a ban on gambling advertising due to the harms caused…

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