Angus Taylor’s time as Liberal Party and Coalition leader is well and truly over, with him failing again to have a badly needed fight with the government on policy that could have reignited his floundering leadership.
Angus Taylor, whose own history has helped kill the Liberal Party, has put up the white flag and done deals with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to pass some very questionable legislation.
A perfect example is the gambling advertising legislation, which is best described as weak, designed to keep the gambling industry happy while pretending to actually do something about Australia’s excessive gambling problem.
Angus Taylor could have dug in and demanded a blanket ban on gambling advertising, or close to it, which would have embarrassed the government in a huge way for being in the gambling industry’s pocket.
Taylor digging in would have also been a winner with voters, as “Three in four Australians (77%) would support a ban on gambling advertisements“, and would have put him front and center with the media allowing him to promote himself as a man of principle putting families and voters first.
But no, Angus Taylor buckled and proved the coalition are just as much in the gambling industry’s pocket as the government is.
To add insult to injury, Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young this week said in the senate Angus Taylor was Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s lap dog Toto as per the below video:
Background to Gambling advertising reform:
The Conversation reported on the 27th of July 2026:
Reforming Australia’s gambling industry has been one of the most high-profile political issues of recent years. Constantly in the headlines, there are high levels of public support to bring in tougher rules, including gambling advertising bans.
But the federal government has been reluctant to act. It has introduced its new gambling legislation to parliament, but the bill has been criticised as not going far enough to address the problem.
There’s been a lot of speculation as to why there’s been so little political appetite to bring in tougher measures. One key reason is governments have a clear conflict of interest: they rely on gambling revenue while also being responsible for reducing gambling harm.
and
Momentum for changing Australia’s gambling laws has been building since the 2023 release of the Murphy report. Handed down by a cross-party parliamentary inquiry and chaired by the late Labor MP Peta Murphy, the report made 31 recommendations, including limitations on gambling advertising and the appointment of a national online gambling regulator.
The government was slow to respond to the report. Three years later, it finally did.
The proposed legislation makes some attempts to protect people from gambling harms. If passed, this legislation would restrict when and how frequently gambling ads may air and ban the use of celebrities in those ads, among other changes.
and:
Put simply, the federal government’s reluctance to push for stronger regulation can be linked to the revenue gambling generates. (Click here to read more)
The Conversation blames the impact on government revenue from gambling for the government’s lack of real action on gambling advertising.
But the reality is gambling companies also donate $millions to the Labor Party and Liberal Party which has had a major impact on their decisions. And the media companies who profit from gambling advertising have also heavily influenced the Labor Party and Liberal Party.
The bottom line is the Labor Party and Liberal Party are owned by the gambling industry, and the Australian public suffer for it.
Opportunities to embarrass the government on high-profile legislation doesn’t happen often and Taylor missed a huge opportunity, and probably his last, to fight for what is right which might have saved his leadership of the coalition, but he has failed badly.
Angus Taylor is nothing more than a sitting duck waiting for the Liberal Party to remove him, which should happen later this year or early next year.
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Categories: Angus Taylor
It was the Coalition that enabled gambling advertising to get out of control in the first instance. As stated, Taylor could have corrected that problem, especially with 75% of voters wanting that reform. The decision also doesn’t look good for Labor.
Sarah Hanson Young and her party, with their preferences, put Labor in Govt. They would never give preferences to LNP, so can’t criticize.
Every day in every way our politicians disappoint us.
Simultaneous ‘donations’ to both of the major parties must be, more properly, called ‘bribes’.
albanese is a coward for bowing to the Gambling Industry and the Senator nailed taylor for what he is
As Alison writes a majority of the public desiring gambling reform and Taylor’s inability to read the room is parallel with the majority of the public desiring gas tax reform and Albanese having a dearth of awareness. At the end of the day it is deliberate because neither of these career politicians give one damn about what the public actually want; when in fact they are public servants who work for us and we pay their salary and all the perks that come with it. Career politicians quickly segue into a delusion that they are royalty in Australia. They just don’t care about anything except their personal desires and needs, and a lot of that pertains to pre-assembling their post-parliamentary careers as lobbyists. Another thing I know that they don’t seem to notice, is how sick of all of this crap the public are. I don’t think they even care. It will be their undoing.
It takes the Australian people a very long time to show their feelings at the ballot box. Hoping 2028 will be the year. If we don’t rid ourselves of the duopoly and one nation, we’re deserve all we get.
George Galloway’s description of the UK’s Conservative and Labour parties as being ‘two cheeks of the same arse’ applies equally to the LNP and Labor. Describing the LNP as the ‘opposition’ is a misnomer. They represent nothing less than greedy, ambitious political elites who care little for the public. Their primary concern is the revolving door that they expect will return them to the government benches.
I was hoping someone would bring up the Watergate scam, $80 Million in water from the Murray Darling Basin claimed as environmental water.
I am so disappointed by the duopoly of Government, promised so much before the election, and to date everything has been watered down. Bring on the independents and Greens
Angus Taylor told his wife he was going to behave himself today.
She looked at him for a moment and said:
“Really?”
He said, “Absolutely.”
They both burst out laughing.
Apparently, neither of them wanted to ruin the joke. 😂