SYDNEY: Australia should phase out advertising for online gambling in three years, a parliamentary committee of inquiry recommended on Wednesday (Jun 28) as it looked to limit the 'havoc' it caused in one of the world's biggest betting market. The committee made 31 recommendations on how online gambling, w
SYDNEY: Australia should phase out advertising for online gambling in three years, a parliamentary committee of inquiry recommended on Wednesday as it looked to limit the"havoc" it caused in one of the world's biggest betting market.
Australians outspend the citizens of every other country on online gambling, Peta Murphy, chair of the committee said in the report titled"You win some, you lose more".Murphy said online gambling companies advertise deliberately and strategically alongside sport, which has normalised it as fun and harmless and sociable activity.
"Australia would be diminished if sport was to be so captured by gambling revenue that providing an opportunity for betting came to be seen as its primary purpose," Murphy said. It recommended the ban be phased in over three years so sporting bodies and broadcasters had enough time to find alternative sources of advertising revenue.
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