TV and gambling executives spent the week in Canberra trying to water down a proposed two-per-hour limit on TV ads and a digital blackout.
But several MPs on a backbench policy committee were adamant the government needed to strengthen its draft proposal at a meeting with Communications Minister Michelle Rowland early in the week.
Not all MPs on the committee expressed the same view, according to sources not authorised to speak publicly. But the forceful arguments of a group of MPs demonstrated the pressure Rowland faces after several Labor MPs went public in calling for a ban.plans last week. They are continuing to target senior figures in the government urging them to give more weight to Murphy’s report.
Shorten noted that Rowland was planning to enact a bigger betting reform package than had ever been attempted by a government.
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