Speaking about the gambling ads ban, Premier Jay Weatherill says betting adverts will be allowed during sporting broadcasts and new regulations will only ban enticements to gamble on games that are already underway. Mr Weatherill this morning moved to clarify earlier comments where he indicated all gambling advertising would be banned from siren to siren during broadcasts.

In an early morning interview on ABC Radio, Mr Weatherill was asked if he was “banning all betting advertising during sports” and answered: “Once the game’s started, yes”. Asked if betting advertisements that didn’t mention live odds would be banned, Mr Weatherill said “We are going to ban things which have the effect of advertising live odds and we’ve got a very broad definition”. Mr Weatherill later said bans would be limited to advertising that urged betting on matches being played.

On Five AA Radio, he commented on the gambling ads ban topic: “What we’re actually banning is the advertisement of live odds in a broadcast. If you’re sitting there watching television, then once the game starts you won’t have somebody publishing the live odds and you won’t have somebody asking you to bet or encouraging you in any way to actually get a bet on.”

Mr Weatherill yesterday said the changes, which will have national implications for broadcasters and teams, were a bid to stop young men being conditioned that gambling was a natural part of sport. Opposition gambling spokesman Iain Evans said Mr Weatherill had “over-spruiked” a ban on betting that he didn’t even understand.

“The Premier is not across the detail of his own policy,” he said. Mr Evans said a gambling ads ban would cause problems with sports sponsorship, such as the Adelaide Casino sponsoring the Adelaide Crows and Centrebet sponsoring St Kilda in the AFL.