Kate Chaney asks Anthony Albanese:

Today parliamentarians from across the House heard personal stories about gambling harm including from a Western Australian whose brother died by suicide after struggling with gambling addiction. The government has not yet even provided a response to the Murphy inquiry into online gambling. Let alone implemented any of our key recommendations. Is the delay due to successful lobbying by powerful interests and what you say to people experiencing gambling harm who are still being bombarded by gambling ads.

Albanese:

With respect I say it is not correct to say we have not responded.

We have done more as a Government in any Government in Australia’s history since Federation. As simple as that.

Pitstop the self exclusion register has been in operation for two years as of last week.

Making been an enormous difference we have launched the National Self-Exclusion Register at the end of July, it has recorded 46,000 369 total registrations, including 30,000 750 active exclusions. 39% of current registrants have chosen a lifetime ban. 39%.

The problem that we see with gambling is not someone having a punt on a Saturday, at the pub, it is ongoing addiction to gambling which can be incredibly harmful.

We have banned the use of credit cards for online wagering, we have established mandatory customer ID for online wagering, we have implemented monthly win and loss statement strengthened classification of videogames that contain gambling like content.

We will continue to work on these areas as we have said we want to break the connection between wagering and sports.

A lot of that has been done voluntarily as well by the sporting organisations who understand the damage that can be caused. While gambling is legal Australia, we respect people’s right to have a punt but we have a responsibility to make sure the industry act responsibly and that’s what we are doing.