On 07 February 2013 the Senate referred the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Advertising for Sports Betting) Bill 2013 for inquiry and report.
Submissions should be received by 27 February 2013. The reporting date is 16 May 2013. On 15 May 2013,the Senate granted an extension of time for reporting until 28 June 2013.
The Committee is seeking written submissions from interested individuals and organisations preferably in electronic form submitted online or sent by email to gamblingreform@aph.gov.au as an attached Adobe PDF or MS Word format document. The email must include full postal address and contact details.
Due to the overlapping subject matter, the committee has decided to include consideration of the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Advertising for Sports Betting) Bill 2013 in its final report. It will not be conducting a separate inquiry on this bill. The committee is not calling for submissions for the bill.
Alternatively, written submissions may be sent to:
Committee Secretary
Joint Select Committee on Gambling Reform
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia
Notes to help you prepare your submission are available from the website at http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/wit_sub/index.htm. Alternatively, the Committee Secretariat will be able to help you with your inquiries and can be contacted on telephone +61 2 6277 3113 or facsimile +61 2 6277 5952 or by email to gamblingreform@aph.gov.au.
Inquiries from hearing and speech impaired people should be directed to Parliament House TTY number 02 6277 7799. Adobe also provides tools at http://access.adobe.com/ for the blind and visually impaired to access PDF documents. If you require any special arrangements to enable you to participate in the Committee's inquiry, please contact the Committee Secretariat.
Once the Committee accepts your submission, it becomes a confidential Committee document and is protected by Parliamentary Privilege. You must not release your submission without the Committee's permission. If you do, it will not be protected by Parliamentary Privilege. At some stage during the inquiry, the Committee normally makes submissions public and places them on its website. Please indicate if you want your submission to be kept confidential.