{"id":28405,"date":"2024-08-12T14:14:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T14:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=28405"},"modified":"2024-08-12T14:14:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T14:14:35","slug":"greens-to-move-for-ban-on-gambling-advertising-forcing-senate-vote-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/08\/12\/greens-to-move-for-ban-on-gambling-advertising-forcing-senate-vote-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens to move for ban on gambling advertising, forcing Senate vote this week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Greens will force a Senate vote this week for a ban on gambling advertising. The Greens will move in the Senate for a ban on gambling advertising in an amendment to the&nbsp;<em>Communications Legislation Amendment (Regional Broadcasting Bill).&nbsp;<\/em>The ban would apply to broadcast and online platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Senator Hanson-Young is spokesperson for Communications and Manager of Greens Business in the Senate:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLabor should honour the legacy of Peta Murphy, not the profits of parasites in the gambling lobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAustralia banned tobacco ads in this country because they did acute harm. Gambling companies profit from addiction and misery, targeting our kids and wrecking families. They must be banned too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time for Parliament to listen to the experts, respect public opinion and back a full ban on gambling ads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe gambling lobby may have deep pockets, but the public want strong action. Our amendment will be a test for Labor and the Coalition this week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens will force a Senate vote this week for a ban on gambling advertising. The Greens will move in the Senate for a ban on gambling advertising in an amendment to the&nbsp;Communications Legislation Amendment (Regional Broadcasting Bill).&nbsp;The ban would apply to broadcast and online platforms. Senator Hanson-Young is spokesperson for Communications and Manager of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/08\/12\/greens-to-move-for-ban-on-gambling-advertising-forcing-senate-vote-this-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens to move for ban on gambling advertising, forcing Senate vote this week&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28406,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28405\/revisions\/28406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}