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Murray Watt says government has taken ‘serious action’ on gambling in defence of response to Murphy report

Minister for the environment and water, Murray Watt, is appearing on ABC News Breakfast from Adelaide this morning ahead of the Labor party’s national conference. Asked if it would be like “WWE wrestling” (frightening imagery), Watt said there would be “a few little stage fights, but ultimately, it’s going to be an endorsement of the federal government’s policy agenda”.

We know that many Australians still continue to do it tough, despite the work we’ve done around tax cuts and increased wages and cost of living relief. So I think what you’ll see at this conference is a really big focus on what more we can be doing as a party, and as a government, to deliver that real change.

I don’t want to preempt the conference. There’ll be people who’ll say a range of things about these sorts of issues, but I do think it needs to be recognised that the government has taken some very serious action already.