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Australia’s Labor government is expected to announce the delay of long-awaited federal reforms of gambling advertising. News broke across Australian media networks this weekend that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese would push back settling gambling advertising reforms to 2025. The delay was attributed to opposition from the media and sports, who depend heavily on revenue from gambling advertisements. As it stands, …

BetStop, the National Self-Exclusion Register of Australian gambling, will undertake its first statutory review. As confirmed by Communications Minister Michelle Rowland, the government has appointed Richard Eccles to conduct the review, evaluating BetStop’s progress against its founding objectives. BetStop came into existence in August 2023 to serve as a national, unified gambling self-exclusion scheme available across all six federal states. …

Australia has adopted the measures of the Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill of 2023, imposing a federal ban on gambling with funds from credit cards and other related products. Effective 11 June, consumers across all of Australia’s six territorial states will no longer be able to use credit cards and other credit-related services as a payment method with online gambling operators. …

Australian gambling operators have been informed that the ‘BetStop’ self-exclusion register will be launched on 21 August.  The register, which will function across Australia’s six federal states, will be operated by ACMA, the Australian Communications and Media Authority. At the start of the year, the ACMA was tasked by the government to implement a centralised self-exclusion scheme for Australian gambling. …

Australia’s governing Labor Party has outlined its support for a blanket ban on gambling advertising, stating that the country should not accept “another generation experiencing escalating gambling harms”.  Labor MPs have backed the findings of a parliamentary inquiry recommending a “ban on ads for online gambling across all media, to be implemented within a three-year period”. The inquiry follows months …