{"id":33134,"date":"2026-08-14T15:23:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=33134"},"modified":"2026-08-14T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T15:23:58","slug":"wowsermelons-could-the-political-class-care-about-something-that-actually-matters-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=33134","title":{"rendered":"Wowsermelons: Could the political class care about something that actually matters, please?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you like this article, share it with your friends.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t want to go too hard on gambling ads in their deal to pass Labor\u2019s pissweak reforms: so they don\u2019t come across as killjoys.<\/p>\n<p>Per Nine, both leaders are said to be worried about One Nation weaponising \u201cwowserism\u201d \u2014 old-timey Australian slang for a puritanical wish to prevent activities like drinking or gambling \u2014 with Coalition figures saying Pauline Hanson \u201cwanted to portray the betting crackdown as an attack on working-class culture\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Unlock this article with bonus extended access for all logged in readers.<\/p>\n<p>Save over 60% on your first year of unlimited access and no ads. Renews at $199\/year. Cancel anytime.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/2026\/08\/14\/melon-gate-wowsers-anthony-albanese-gambling-pauline-hanson-angus-taylor\/' target='_blank'>Read the original article on www.crikey.com.au<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like this article, share it with your friends. 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\u2019t want to go too hard on gambling ads in their deal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,4,3],"tags":[69,28,32],"class_list":["post-33134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commodities","category-important","category-technology","tag-impact-eth","tag-signal-buy","tag-stage-stage-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}