The final week of Federal Parliament this year was notable for the outpouring of grief at the passing of the Labor Member for Dunkley, Peta Murphy, to cancer on December 4. Eighty-three members of the House of Representatives – Labor, Liberal, National, Greens and cross-bench MPs, spoke in support of a bipartisan condolence motion.
More than half of the MPs who spoke highlighted Murphy’s strong commitment to gambling reform and her role leading the House of Representatives Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs inquiry into online gambling. It speaks volumes that everyone involved in that multiparty committee simply calls it ‘the Murphy Report’.”
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese spoke of Murphy’s contributions, saying: “Peta … led the charge on new reforms to minimise the harm caused by online gambling”. Communications Minister Michelle Rowland spoke in similar terms.
