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SEPT. 6 RED HILL
Calls growing for action on Murphy Report
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ting a bet on. “The relationship that young kids are having with gambling is scary, and it’s dangerous.” Peta Murphy chaired a parliamentary inquiry into gambling harm, which released its final report in mid-2023. Murphy died from breast cancer just months after the report was handed down. The inquiry’s report made 31 recommendations, including a ban on online gambling advertising, stronger consumer protections for licensed online gambling, a crackdown on illegal gambling websites, and a legislated duty of care. The federal government has yet to act on the recommendations (“Murphy Report inaction inconceivable” The Times 29/4/2025). Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was grilled about the federal government’s inaction on gambling reform in Question Time last week. Independent MP Kate Chaney asked the Prime Minister “is the delay due to successful lobbying by powerful interests, and what do you say to people experiencing gambling harm who are still being bombarded by gambling ads?” Continued page 2
Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au AUSTRALIAN cricketer Usman Khawaja has declared his support for reforms proposed by the anti-gambling inquiry chaired by late Dunkley MP Peta Murphy. Khawaja visited Parliament on Thursday, 28 August, to meet with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. He travelled to Canberra planning to speak about the war in Gaza and gambling reform. Prior to his meeting with the Prime Minister, Khawaja told reporters in Canberra that the federal government should ban gambling from sport. “You have to go cold turkey. It’s the same as what happened with tobacco,” Khawaja said. “If gambling is repeatedly being brought together with sport and athletes, showing you can’t watch sport without gambling, then it is a very dangerous precedent to set. “I can’t watch a game without getting odds right before. I play grade cricket with young cricketers who are coming through - there are 16-yearolds with gambling accounts and they cannot watch the game without put-
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