‘Small and weak’: Albanian gambling reform won’t do much to reduce harm

Peta Murphy at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra in 2023.

More than 1,000 days after the publication of the Murphy Report, Prime Minister Anthony Albany has finally announced decisive action to combat gambling advertising in Australia. In mid-2023, the late Peta Murphy of the Labor Party presented a report recommending a ban on gambling advertising because of the harm caused by such advertising on television, … Read more

Youth in anti-body health stigma campaign say banning social media won’t work

Sophie Bloomfield in the House of Commons

Sophie Bloomfield, Youth MP from Guisborough, has also looked into the problem of youth violence. Sophie Bloomfield in the House of Commons A youth MP whose campaign is trying to tackle a “tipping point” in young people’s mental health says banning social media for under-16s will not address this and many other issues young people … Read more