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Advocate for gambling reform reiterates calls for regulator and ban on ads

Reverend Tim Costello, the chief advocate for the Alliance for Gambling Reform, spoke to RN Breakfast this morning about efforts to combat gambling, including the rollout of BetStop, a self-exclusion register.

We are literally saturated. You know, sadly, gambling companies now even own our kids ...

Right at the moment, you have the farcical situation that under 16, you can't be on social media, which I support. But they're inundated with gambling ads online, on TV. 900,000 of young Australians gambled last year, even though it's illegal now.