The digital wallet will sit on people’s phones and may be used instead of a passport or driver’s licence. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastGreens to push for gambling ad ban via communication billAs Paul Karp reported yesterday, Sarah Hanson-Young and the Greens would amend some seperate communications bills already in the Senate to include a total advertising ban on gambling.It’s time we stop this insidious industry from wrecking people’s lives. We did it with tobacco. And we need to do it with gambling. We don’t argue that cancer patients should carry the cost of funding news and funding sport because we banned tobacco advertising.We should be making vulnerable children and families that are being torn apart because of gambling to do that as well.We know that media across the country is in trouble. There is a struggle with the big social media giants. But it shouldn’t be vulnerable children and those families that are being torn apart because of gambling that are forced to carry the cost.And that is just ridiculous to suggest that vulnerable families, individuals who have gambling addictions, should be the ones who are carrying the can rather than finding a better way to support media in this country. Continue reading…
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Author : Amy Remeikis
Publish date : 2024-08-12 21:50:45
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