so it went through guys

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passed wednesday. albo and taylor stitched a deal on the monday night and it was through both houses by wednesday, after three years of it going nowhere
what's in it - no ads during live sport, and they widened that to 15 min before and 5 after. nothing in venues, nothing on jerseys, no athletes or celebs fronting it. 3 an hour on telly between 5am and 8.30. online only if you're logged in and over 18. starts january
so basically what was on the table plus a bit. i said last week it wouldn't go through clean and it didn't, it went through with extra bits bolted on
 
yet nobody's talking about is the commission ban. they've made it illegal to pay staff based on customer activity.

i'll be straight with you, that's my industry and half the people i know work on that model. account managers, VIP teams, retention. you can argue it should never have existed and fine, argue it. but there's a lot of people in melbourne who found out on wednesday that their comp structure is gone in january and nobody in the press has written a word about it because they're all busy counting ads per hour.

also the inducement rules. no direct marketing for 14 days after signup, three months after someone comes off betstop, and none at all to anyone flagged at risk. that last one is the real change and it's going to be a mess to implement because nobody's agreed what "at risk" means operationally.
 
none of this touches pokies does it not one line of it every pub in this country has twenty machines in the back room taking more money in a night than the ads ever did and they write a whole bill about the telly

my old man did his super on a machine at the local not off an ad during the footy
 
that's cause pokies are state, this is federal, the commonwealth cant touch em without a fight with every premier in the country and they wont pick that fight because the states take the tax off them
its not that they forgot, its that they cant. or wont, same result
 
The Greens and Pocock voted against it, which tells you something about how it's landed. Pocock called it a betrayal. Jenny Ware, who actually sat on the 2023 inquiry, has criticized it as well, and she's Liberal. So you have reform advocates saying it's too weak and the industry sayin it's too strong, and Labor calling that balance. Sometimes that genuinely is what balance looks like. Sometimes it just means you've annoyed everyone equally.
 
we had this in 2019 or 20 i dont remember exact. they took gambling ads off tv completly, not three per hour, zero. what happend is the sponsorship moved to shirts and then they banned shirts and then it moved to the little board behind the goal. every time you close door they open window. now is on streamers and telegram channels and nobody regulate that at all

anyway good luck to you lads i hope works better there
 
Watching this from the other side of the world with some envy, honestly.

The strongest bit is the blackout window. Fifteen before and five after means you can't sneak one in at the coin toss, which is exactly where they used to live. Venue and uniform bans do the other half of the job because that's the stuff kids absorb without noticing it's an ad.
Weakest bit is that three an hour outside sport is still a lot of inventory, and the opt-out register only works if people know it exists. Registers like that always launch to silence.

Also worth mentioning they've banned online keno. Apparently the term for it over there is pocket slots which I think is the best name for a product I've heard all year.
 
Only just seen this... Does the six am start mean the breakfast shows are still allowed to do the odds segment? My mrs watches that on in the morning and its wall to wall.
 
Jono777 said:
Only just seen this... Does the six am start mean the breakfast shows are still allowed to do the odds segment? My mrs watches that on in the morning and its wall to wall.
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five, not six. they moved it down in the amendments
and no, broadcasters promoting odds is out. thats separate from the ad cap
 
the part that gives me the creeps is banks being able to block payments to operators they decide are illegal. thats a bank making a legal determination about where your money can go

i know its aimed at offshore sites. it never stays aimed at what its aimed at
 
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