Australia could ban gambling ads in three years, in a potential $300m revenue loss

Gambling advertisements could be banned within three years if the government adopts the sweeping recommendations of a parliamentary inquiry, in what would amount to hundreds of millions of dollars of lost revenue for media operators.

The damning report titled ‘You win some, you lose more’, handed down today, followed a probe by the House of Representatives standing committee on social policy and legal affairs, makes 31 recommendations.

One of the most significant calls for a ban on all advertising by online gambling operators, applying to television, radio, online and newspapers, phased in over a three-year period.

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