{"id":55211,"date":"2024-08-11T16:38:54","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T06:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=55211"},"modified":"2024-08-11T16:38:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T06:38:54","slug":"australian-government-urged-to-ban-gambling-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=55211","title":{"rendered":"Australian government urged to ban gambling ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An alliance of leading Australians has demanded the government impose a total ban on gambling ads in a country that racks up some of the biggest losses per person in the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gambling losses in Australia, with a population of just 27 million, are estimated at Aus$25 billion a year (US$16 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Adverts enticing people to risk their cash are widespread on television, radio and billboards.<\/p>\n<p>Slot machines known as &#8220;pokies&#8221; are installed in many pubs, too, drawing more to part with their money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gambling advertising in Australia is out of control with one million gambling ads being aired on free-to-air television and radio in just one year,&#8221; said a letter signed by more than 60 prominent Australians to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the opposition leader.<\/p>\n<p>Signatories to the letter released at the weekend included former political, union, sports and faith leaders.<\/p>\n<p>They urged Albanese&#8217;s Labor government and the conservative opposition to agree to outlaw all gambling advertising within three years, in line with the recommendations of a 2023 report into gambling harm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many Australians are alarmed about the proliferation of gambling advertising on our screens and the mounting losses through gambling,&#8221; said former prime minister John Howard, who was among the signatories.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe gambling losses are responsible for enormous harm throughout the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An alliance of leading Australians has demanded the government impose a total ban on gambling ads in a country that racks up some of the biggest losses per person in the world. Gambling losses in Australia, with a population of just 27 million, are estimated at Aus$25 billion a year (US$16 billion). Adverts enticing people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2123],"class_list":["post-55211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-australian-government-urged-to-ban-gambling-ads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}