Communications Minister Michelle Rowland is under increasing pressure from all sides of the gambling debate to reveal whether she will accept a parliamentary inquiry’s call for an advertising ban on betting products.
Documents seen by this masthead show that from June 29 to December 11, Rowland and her staff met with sporting codes, gambling companies and anti-gambling bodies, some of which had not made formal submissions to the inquiry, chaired by the late Labor MP Peta Murphy.
Since the June 28 tabling of the inquiry’s report, which recommended a ban phased in over three years, Rowland’s office has had meetings with 54 stakeholders including the Alliance for Gambling Reform, Crown, Sportsbet, broadcasters and tech giants including Meta and Google.
