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Hello from Canberra! It is the Sunday before the first sitting week in five weeks, so as you can imagine, the media releases are beginning to roll in, with what everyone wants the parliament to focus on. Top of the list is the coming gambling ad legislation. As Paul Karp confirmed during the week, the government is shying away from the total ban over that late Labor MP Peta Murphy recommended following the inquiry she led.
Instead, the government is leaning towards caps, and timed bans, rather than a blanket ban: That has prompted an alliance of former prime ministers and state premiers, MPs and civic leaders from unions to sports to faith and academia to come together to urge the government to go further.
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