Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee (part 2 of 2)
3 August 2026
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Senate Environment and Communications Legislation Committee Australian Parliament
00:00 - 01:06
Speaker 3
And this is, I'll just preface my final question by saying this. I'm someone who trusts decisions that are taken as close to local communities as possible. So, I don't, I'm not someone who automatically believes that the national regulation or the national harmonization of something leads to better outcomes. So just preface. Why is it, given the regulatory gaps that appear between state and federal governments over gambling issues, has there not been a more concerted public policy effort to have the federal government assume, you know, greater responsibility, if not uniform responsibility for gambling matters, given that in some jurisdictions where there's a limitation to influence, regulatory influence and control, you know, these, particularly foreign operators have been able to flourish.
So why has that not been a key element of people's public policy advocacy?
01:06 - 01:36
Speaker 6
Senator, I'll answer that question in two ways. I lived and worked in Western Australia for 26 years and I was president of the Public Health Association of Western Australia at a time of two, maybe three state elections where we had to write to all political parties to get their policy in relation to poker machines. And you'll remember a very aggressive campaign by the Australian Hotels Association in WA, and I'm thinking in the early noughties, of getting poker machines into pubs as a way of saving pubs.
01:36 - 01:43
Speaker 4
And the West Australian Premier, Premier Richard Court, was strong and clear in his opposition to any expansion.
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