Kate Chaney then asks the same question Andrew Wilkie just asked:

Australians are asking why the government has failed to respond to the movie review’s unanimous recommendation to ban gambling ads. No-one in this chamber is seeking to ban gambling despite what you said but when asked about reform you list actions announced before the review. Many members of your own party support and add ban. Why won’t you allow a free vote on a ban on ads for online gambling?

Anthony Albanese gives the same answer:

I thank the member for her question to me as Prime Minister but I am also leader of the Australian Labor party and we are a political party, not a bunch of individuals and what we do… What we do what we do is we make decisions, we make decisions in our caucus, in our caucus that make a difference and when we make decisions in our caucus what that does is result in action.

People have the choice, Mr Speaker about what political path they will take and how they will participate in politics. People can participate as independents and then make decisions by government and then whether they will decide or oppose them. I respect that, I respect the member for Curtin and the way she takes policy development seriously in this Chamber, and she has put forward a range of amendments to government legislation that have been supported by the government in the last time and this, and I encourage her to continue to do so. But we treat every member of the parliament with respect.

That hasn’t always been the case. That hasn’t always been the case for governments. But we do that. But we have introduced modern legislation to tackle problem gambling for any government since Federation, and one of the things that we continue to do is to work with organisations, including media organisations, including sporting organisations as well, on ways in which we can move forward to further tackle the problem gambling issue.

We will have further measures, but we won’t do it by pretending that you can just wave a wand and fix things immediately with one piece of legislation. We will continue to do it piece by piece to make a difference, and that’s precisely what we are doing.