Personally, I think Nick Xenophon and Andrew Wilkie mean well in their anti-gambling crusade. Having said that, a free society like ours also involves the right to make wrong choices.
Poker machines are a scourge and hooked a close friend of mine, but I doubt the proposed pre-committment cards will work. I have no time for online casinos or poker either. If you're silly enough to dance with the devil, you deserve the consequences.
Like most of the posters in this thread, I despise the use of in-play odds during sports commentary... be it Rabbits Warren in the NRL or Tony Greig during the cricket. From what I gather, the government has given broadcasters 12 months to voluntarily stop the practice or risk facing regulation.
Online sports betting has changed the goal posts in recent years - excuse the pun. I enjoy it, but you need to be constantly on guard and exercise restraint, discipline and the 'money management' mantra. When you know the odds for a Collingwood, Storm and Man Utd premiership multi - but forget your anniversary date - then you have a problem...
($12.15 in case anyone was wondering)