Majority of Australians want gambling ads banned before 10.30pm

Calum Jaspan

March 27, 2023 10:39

More than half of Australians would support a ban on wagering advertising across broadcast channels before 10.30 pm. That’s according to new research released as the nation is revealed to be the world’s biggest gambling loser per capita.

The research comes from the Australian Gambling Research Centre (AGRC) at the Australian Institute of Family Studies, which surveyed 1,765 Australian residents aged 18 years and over in July 2022.

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Calum Jaspan

Calum Jaspan was news editor at Mumbrella, based in Melbourne. He was also the producer and host of the Mumbrellacast. He left Mumbrella in May 2023.

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2 COMMENTS

JG 27 Mar 23

OK, I agree to the sentiment. But what is “before 10:30m” defined as? To midnight? To sunrise? Or until you are pissed out of your mind until you have spent all you have?

It needs to be defined as a ‘Gambling Window’. How about 22:30 to 01:30 as an example.

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Calum Jaspan 27 Mar 23

Hey JG

The current window is defined as 8.30pm – 5am, so the idea here would be to tighten that from 10.30pm instead of 8.30.

Cheers

Calum – Mumbrella