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With melon-gate, which party is the gayest, and other important topics dominating the news this week, it flew under the radar slightly. But the major parties have offered up a noteworthy reason they didn’t want to go too hard on gambling ads in their deal to pass Labor’s pissweak reforms: so they don’t come across as killjoys.
Per Nine, both leaders are said to be worried about One Nation weaponising “wowserism” — old-timey Australian slang for a puritanical wish to prevent activities like drinking or gambling — with Coalition figures saying Pauline Hanson “wanted to portray the betting crackdown as an attack on working-class culture”.
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