From The Age:
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has defended the government's intervention in gambling advertising during live sports broadcasts, declaring it has balanced community concerns with the economic needs of broadcasters.
Ms Gillard formally announced the government's demand that TV and radio networks ban the promotion of live odds and restrict gambling advertisements during sporting matches in a press conference at Kirribilli on Sunday afternoon.
In other news:
Adverts for kids' toys and fast food to be banned from children's TV; adverts for cars to be banned from repeats of Top Gear on Dave; adverts for food and supermarkets to be banned from cookery programmes (that's Food Network down the tubes, eh?); adverts for DIY superstores to be banned from home makeover shows; adverts for cosmetics and perfume to be banned from Loose Women etc etc etc.
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
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Is this some kind of scorched-earth policy to cripple Labor forever in response to their constantly trying to dump her? Or is she trying to get as much done as possible before the Liberal assdevastation in Autumn?
RA, you don't seriously think the Liberals-Nationals would reverse this, do you?
From the article:
"Under Labor’s demands – which come several weeks after Opposition Leader Tony Abbott flagged a Coalition government would take action against televised betting – all promotion of betting odds on broadcast media would be banned during games...
Mr Abbott said the government had embraced Coalition policy, and were ''playing catch up politics" with today's announcement."
Adverts for kids' toys and fast food to be banned from children's TV
Actually, some countries, mine included, have that. You can't air TV-commercials directed at children... at all (if the channel airs from here that is). It's a bit of a cop-out when it comes to freedom, but I have to admit I think it's fair enough.
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