Haydn and Matthew are on the front line in schools, delivering powerful seminars to help young people understand and prevent gambling harm.

As Health Education teachers, they’re passionate about early intervention and equipping students with practical strategies - reflected in feedback showing 80% leave feeling better prepared to protect themselves.
“This is a powerful and much needed conversation. Education like this plays a vital role in helping young people be aware of the predatory nature of gambling. I’d also like to see meaningful reform in this area to reduce the burden placed on them.” said one supporter.

By also engaging parents and sharing their knowledge, their work is building a stronger, informed community ready to push back against harm.

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Australia’s new gambling reforms are a step forward—but they don’t go far enough to stop lives being ruined.

Mark Kempster, Alliance Voices Advocate, writes: “I was a nervous wreck the morning I gave my evidence… I was shaking the whole time I gave my evidence — recounting how many times gambling companies had targeted me with inducements and advertising, even as I was trying to self-exclude every month.”

Despite giving evidence and hoping for meaningful reform, these partial measures ignore the key recommendations of Peta Murphy’s inquiry. Gambling ads will still appear frequently, inducements remain unchecked, and there is no national regulator—leaving Australians exposed to harm and vulnerable to addiction.

The peak body for the gambling industry, Responsible Wagering Australia, is already moving to meet with Coalition and Crossbench politicians—no doubt to push to water down Labor’s proposed gambling reforms (as stated in their media release on 2 April 2026).

This is how it works. As soon as reform is on the table, the industry moves fast to protect its profits.

They represent some of the biggest betting companies in the country: bet365, Betfair, PointsBet, Sportsbet, Picklebet, CrownBet and Unibet—companies with deep pockets and a lot to lose.

And here’s the reality: the reforms already don’t go far enough to protect children and reduce gambling harm.

If the gambling industry succeeds in watering them down further, the harm will only continue.

In this Guardian opinion piece, David Pocock argues Labor’s gambling reform response “falls tragically short” — warning it won’t reverse the normalisation of gambling, particularly among young people.

With Australia facing the highest per capita gambling losses in the world, Pocock says partial restrictions ignore the evidence: without a full ban on advertising, harm will continue.

He urges the public to write to their local MPs and the Prime Minister — to demand stronger, evidence-based reform.

In 2023, the Australian government received a detailed plan to reduce gambling harm. 1,000 days later, not one recommendation has been acted on.

Australians are speaking up.

From protecting kids from gambling ads, to families impacted by gambling harm, to the simple belief that things should be better - the reasons for reform are everywhere.

Visit our website to read what some people are saying and to add your reason.

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Despite overseeing 52 online gambling companies, the regulator has no full-time staff and has faced allegations of conflicts of interest and delayed complaint handling.

The Alliance warns the reform falls short, stating: "the … bill reads not as a serious reform agenda, but as a damage-control exercise - introduced after national scrutiny exposed a regulator that is part-time, under-resourced and structurally unsuited to the role it performs."

Stronger, independent oversight is urgently needed to reduce gambling harm.

Australia’s recently announced gambling ad reforms are a step forward - but they don’t go far enough to prevent gambling harm.

On BBC World News, The Alliance CEO Martin Thomas made the case clearly: "There shouldn't really be any advertised gambling advertising on television or online. The parliamentary inquiry which looked at this almost three years ago, suggested a full ad ban in the same way that cigarette advertising is banned. It's a legal product like gambling, but we should do everything we can to protect kids and to limit its marketing. And that's the case here. I mean, no one's suggesting in Australia that we should have three cigarette ads every hour, so we shouldn't have three gambling ads every hour."

Despite new limits, gambling ads will still appear frequently - continuing to expose children and normalise harm.

The Alliance for Gambling Reform says the proposed system shifts responsibility onto families, instead of the gambling companies and platforms profiting from these ads.

As Tim Costello puts it: “Not a single parent would opt in to their kids seeing gambling ads.”

Alliance Voices Advocate Mark Kempster has spoken out again, highlighting the catastrophic impact gambling advertising is having on young Australians and calling out the government’s failure to act.

It has now been 1,000 days since the Murphy Report outlined 31 recommendations to reduce gambling harm, yet no meaningful reform has been delivered.

Families and communities continue to pay the price. What's your reason? Share with us today.

New NSW research reveals a concerning link between gambling machines and family and domestic violence. As machine numbers increase, so do reported incidents - with evidence suggesting this relationship is causal.

Hotspots include parts of Sydney and northern NSW, while service providers warn support systems are not equipped to handle the overlap between gambling harm and violence.

Integrated services, better training, and stronger policy responses are urgently needed to protect families.