In the final months of her life, the Labor MP Peta Murphy was the chair of a parliamentary inquiry into the impact of gambling on Australians. After hearing from the gambling industry, dependent sporting codes and families impacted by gambling addiction, her position was unequivocal: all ads for online gambling should be banned. It’s been more than 14 months since the government received her recommendations and yet the proliferation of gambling ads has continued unabated.

Now, the government could be set to water down a ban, in favour of caps on the number of ads per hour.

David Pocock admits that sometimes he has had to vote for policy he doesn’t fully agree with. The first-term Senator came into parliament with the best intentions to avert the climate crisis, but has sometimes found himself having to work to make legislation he thinks is bad, a little bit better.

Today, Independent Senator David Pocock on his new bill and whether he’s always lived up to his own duty of care for future generations.