Labor dropped their long-awaited gambling report on budget day. Were they betting no one would notice?

The government’s response to the Murphy report is hardly dynamite. Harm advocates, gambling operators and advertisers are all waiting to see whether Labor’s rhetoric will be matched by action

The Labor government decided to release its contentious, much-delayed response to Peta Murphy’s report on gambling on one of the biggest political news days of the year.

They dropped it while the nation’s federal political journalists were trapped in budget lockup.