Federal leadership for meaningful harm reduction
July 29, 2026
National leadership on gambling reform is essential if the health, safety and wellbeing of people and communities is to improve, says Anglicare Tasmania.
Its submission to the Senate Inquiry relating to the Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026 and the National Self-Exclusion Register (Cost Recovery) Bill 2026 argues that the proposed reforms do not go far enough.
Anglicare Tasmania’s submission focuses on areas where the proposed legislation can be improved.
It endorses the recommendations of the Murphy Review, including:
- the establishment and resourcing of an independent national regulator;
- a total ban on gambling advertising, recognising that gambling is a highly addictive product and that 76% of Australians want a total ban phased in over the next three years; and
- a prohibition on inducements that encourage higher risk gambling.
Anglicare says that national leadership on reform will assist state and territory leaders to implement evidence-based harm reduction in a coordinated manner.
Further reading
You can read Anglicare Tasmania’s submission to the Senate Inquiry here. (Submission no. 22)
Follow campaigning by the Alliance for Gambling Reform.
Anglicare provides Gamblers Help services in Tasmania on behalf of the Tasmanian Government.
Anglicare’s Social Action and Research Centre has written extensively about poker machine harm.
