Sam Emery: Australian correspondent on the Australian Government banning online gambling advertising in new reform

The Australian Government is looking to ban gambling advertising under new reforms set to hit Cabinet.

Online advertising would be banned immediately - and TV promotions would be banned within two years.

Australian correspondent Sam Emery isn't sure if a blanket ban is the way to go - given how many sectors rely on the money generated by the gambling industry. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand Business.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Sam Imrios, a correspondents with US Sam, Hello, get I
have it.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
So the current account difference, it's got a bit, we're saying, Yeah,
I think I heard it described as just a very
faint heartbeat. The economy is always something that the coalition
loves to tell voters that labor has struggled to manage
it in previous governments, but of course also in this
current government. Treasurer Jin Charmers has again emphasized that economic

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figures due out tomorrow, you know, they're.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Showing soft growth.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Analysts are tipping the numbers could be below one percent,
which would be the weakest to have since late twenty twenty.
And the opposition says the government only seemed to blame
and attack the Reserve Bank for the economy, and you know,
not often do we all come out and agree with
the opposition government. But to be honest, we haven't heard
much more from Jim Charmers. He says, it's new language

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and shouldn't be controversial for the Treasurer to say these things,
you know about global uncertainty and higher interest rates, price
pressures that we're all dealing with, but we haven't heard
anything else since they've been in government. And I think
it's fair to say that Australians, especially, you know, knowing
that we are really starting to enter that sort of
pre election pre campaign, if you could call it that,

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we just want to start hearing some policies, some action,
some change. You know, how are we actually going to
face this rather than I think we all fairly well
understand now about what pressures are on our economy and
why we're finding it so much harder.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Samson, talk to me about this gambling ad, Ben, Can
they actually ban online ads? Well, they can certainly put
a restriction on it.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
They can certainly put it's almost like a geo fence
or a geo lock on these types of things, so
it will be extremely hard to police, I believe, Heather,
but they can put these bans in place. It was
interesting hearing Andrew Clonel there obviously with the latest on it,
in terms of the fact that it could almost be
an immediate ban with these online gambling ads, but also

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the fact that they've sort of come a bit clearer now.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
In terms of what's going to happen on the more.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Regular mainstay broadcasting like TV advertising. Part of the issue
for those sorts of things are obviously previously signed contracts,
you know, that still have one, two, three years left
in them that need to be paid out, so that
the government's using that as a reason as to why
we won't necessarily see them disappear on the likes.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Of TV and radio.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
But I mean it's sort of similar to the smoking bands,
and you know, one day maybe in the alcohol bands
that we might see follow suit. Where you know, it's
just strange that these type this type of advertising is
still so free and easy to access for all ages,
whether you're online or offline. I think in this day

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and age, it's strange that it's still so free and
easier for coming from a country like Australia that has
spent so much money into things, you know, one of
the first countries in the world to bring in that
plain packaging cigarettes, you know those. I think most people
sort of thought this is just a waste of money
and time. But next thing, you know, we have a
generation of kids who weren't smoking and actually hadn't been

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addicted to nicotine.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Now they've got the weight problem to deal with. On
that side of things.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
So you know, we are our worst enemy in these
sort of situations because we need the money, the sports
need the money, the broadcast people need the money from
these advertising.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
But there's got to be a better way to do it.
How long were these people up the mountain? Too long?

Speaker 1 (03:40):
And as the premiere of Tasmania said, why do we
have to save people from stupidity? Which I thought was
an interesting way for a premier to come out and
say it. But they were up there overnight. They two
separate groups. Wasn't just one group, please say? The first
group of thirteen called about half us four yesterday afternoon

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and council staff actually helping them rescue. As they were
coming back down, they noticed another group of people around
eleven hundred feet were still on the mountain. Apparently Heather
it was minus three, but it felt like minus twenty
two at that time. And it was a weird rescue
where it was local government sees and local communities who

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had to come and save these people. And the premiers
come out again and said we cannot afford to have
any resources diverted simply because of people stupid.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Sam, It's good to talk to you mate, Thank you
so much look after yourself. That's Sam Emery, Australia correspondent.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
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