This article is an instalment in a new series, Punted, on the government’s failure to reform gambling advertising.
Major party politicians have accepted at least 299 gifts, including tickets to sporting events and shows, from the gambling industry in the past five years, an analysis of Parliament’s interests registers reveals. Crikey and the transparency project Open Politics have collected all the declarations of those gifts on a special web page where anyone can have a look for themselves.
Forty-eight current federal politicians have declared gambling largesse since the May 2019 election. That’s 21% of all federal politicians.
MPs, senators and their families have enjoyed free entry and hospitality to AFL and NRL grand finals, the Melbourne Cup (in some cases, in the Birdcage,
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