Professional, junior sport would survive ban [Video]

I wouldn’t mind a wager that the scripts for those lobbying the federal government not to ban gambling advertising outright are being written by the same people who produce the infernally annoying ads.

Have a multi on us, the lobbyists say. More ads, more gambling, more revenue all round, more money for local sport. Winners all ’round, or your money back.

Disclaimer: Always lobby responsibly.

Of course, they don’t put it quite like that. In fact, it’s more like the Grim Reaper anti-AIDS ads of the 1980s: if you’re not prepared to use protection on us and our massively lucrative businesses and deals, you’ll be dead before you know it.

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Anyway, it’s working. Eighteen months ago, a federal government inquiry into online gambling chaired by the late Peta Murphy …