The Federal Government is facing criticism from all sides over the weak half-measures in its proposed gambling reforms. Crossbench MPs are calling on Labor to adopt the landmark Murphy Report in full, including a blanket ban on gambling advertising.

The consultation on the governments gambling legislation has been a ‘charade’. Well done @mon4kooyong.bsky.social @mikedaube.bsky.social

Absolutely thrilled to share that @healthpromint.bsky.social Impact Factor has increased from 2.4 to 3.6. A huge thank you to our authors, reviewers, editorial team, and the wider health promotion community. It’s wonderful recognition of the outstanding scholarship being published in the journal 🎉

I’ve finally set up a public Instagram account! I’ll be sharing: 🔍 Research on how industries influence health 🎰 Gambling reform and public health advocacy 📢 Health policy and health promotion 🎥 Updates from Health Promotion International #academicsky 📱 www.instagram.com/profsamantha...

I literally could watch this on repeat 😃

📣 Call for Papers for Special Collection @healthpromint.bsky.social: Power, Equity & the Health of Women & Girls 📆 Submission deadlines: Abstracts - 30 September 2026 Full papers - 01 March 2027 More information: academic.oup.com/heapro/pages... @docsamantha.bsky.social

Last week I chatted with @davidpocock.bsky.social & team about gambling reform. We talked evidence, regulatory capture, and the gap between what Australians want and what the Albanese govt is delivering. #auspol Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/6th3... YouTube open.spotify.com/episode/6th3...

"This is a decision in the interest of very powerful industries that are making money from a product that harms and sometimes kills people" @docsamantha.bsky.social On the capture of the Albanese govt by wealthy lobbies, nothing shouts louder than their pissweak gambling ad 'reforms'. #auaspol

The government's proposed crackdown on gambling ads doesn't go as far as most Australians want. When you run the numbers, it's a win for the betting industry.

Excellent. Well deserved recognition.

Wonderful to see Dr Tedros talk about the 40th Anniversary of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion and acknowledge the work of Professor Ilona Kickbusch

Australia’s proposed gambling reforms create the appearance of action, while leaving the drivers of harm intact. Partial ad bans don’t work. They protect the status quo. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

The government's farcical half-pregnant #gambling advertising reforms are destined for the scrapheap. simonchapman6.com/2026/04/09/f... @docsamantha.bsky.social @mon4kooyong.bsky.social @sarahhansonyoung.bsky.social @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social @davidpocock.bsky.social @zalisteggall.bsky.social

Labor’s plan to restrict gambling ads set to reduce wagering by just 0.8%, government analysis shows www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“What the Albanese government is proposing is not evidence-based, and it will not reverse the normalisation of gambling among young people” Excellent from @davidpocock.bsky.social #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Excellent editorial [email protected] “Albanese says these are the most significant reforms ever implemented. This is the lie of comparison. It is true and also meaningless. They are the first such reforms and they are manifestly inadequate.” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit...

Thanks to PK for having me on Afternoon Briefing to talk about the lack of comprehensive action from the Albanese govt on gambling reform. You can watch the interview here at about 22.30mins Watching Afternoon Briefing in iview iview.abc.net.au/show/afterno...

Good summary and comments on half-hearted measures. Partial restrictions get partial and very limited results – and decades of experience in other areas tell us that they simply challenge harmful industries to find new ways of targeting young people and vulnerable groups.

Peta Murphy was serious about protecting young Australians from gambling industry harm. The government’s proposed reforms fail the Murphy test. theconversation.com/small-and-un...

🔔 NEW   Creating health-promoting spaces for change within the economy: the role of food co-operatives in England   ✍️ Amy Barnes, Maddy Power, Kelli Kennedy   OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag038

🔔 NEW   Youth washing as a corporate social responsibility tactic of health-harming industries   ✍️ Sally Witchalls, Hannah Pitt, Simone McCarthy, Becky Freeman, Samantha Thomas   OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag018

Important issue that merits further attention.

🔔 NEW   How participation in health promotion affects peer-experts and experts-by-experience from vulnerable neighborhoods: a case study from The Netherlands   ✍️ Samantha Elkhuizen, Bente van Aken, Emma Stulen, Dagmar Niewold, Annemarie Wagemakers, Kristina Thompson   doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag035

🔔 NEW   Evading regulation: young people’s exposure to harmful commodity marketing in the social media feeds of their favourite influencers   ✍️ Antonia C Lyons, Ian Goodwin, Jessica Young, Cassandra Burton-Wood   OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag037

New in PN: @anamariecox.bsky.social on the societal scourge of prediction markets "You’re betting on bombings, conflicts, whether or not a US civil war breaks out before the end of this year. Who’s gonna win that bet? It’s like betting on Russian Roulette. It’s corrosive in so many ways.”

🔔 NEW   Calling for a more coherent policy response to driving harm   ✍️ Kate Gray, Grant Ennis, Greg Fell   OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag026

🔔 NEW   Health literacy needs and community-based solutions for African Australians in NSW and Victoria at the point of care    ✍️ Abela Mahimbo, Salma A E Ahmed, Zoe Trabe-Templeton, Sheila Uyirwoth, Cordelia Oyekan-John, Michael Camit   OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag021

Public health advocates say more transparency needed in debate over illicit tobacco as industry links questioned

🔔 NEW   The social nature of parks: associations between social interactions and park visitation and physical activity among children and adolescents   ✍️ Elise Rivera, Benedicte Deforche, Venurs H Y Loh, Anna Timperio, Jenny Veitch   OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag027

🔔 NEW   Community perspectives on health needs and assets in underserved Dublin areas: a participatory qualitative study   ✍️ Eunice Phillip, Sally Griffin, Eisten Keogh, Amir Bachari, Talent Nyamakope, Fiona McDonnell, Joanna Kelly, Craig Smith, Debbi Stanistreet   OA doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf232

The evidence of things not seen I wrote a short essay in @healthpromint.bsky.social to mark @ottawacharter40.bsky.social academic.oup.com/heapro/artic... Watch my chat with editor @docsamantha.bsky.social on YouTube youtu.be/79i7TgalSPw?... Or listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/2AbP...

🔔 NEW   Economic evaluation of an implementation intervention to increase outdoor free play in early childhood education   ✍️ Alice Grady, Luke Giles, Victoria McCreanor, Connor Ballinger, Nicole Pearson, Heidi Turon, Luke Wolfenden, Melanie Lum, Sze Lin Yoong   OA doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag011

🔔 NEW   Coping with heat: exploring psychometric properties and relationships of a heat-related health literacy scale   ✍️ Julian Friedrich, Joachim Bachner, Simon Blaschke, Filip Mess, Jan Schmid-Ellinger   OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag020

🔔 NEW   Linking food insecurity to perceptions of food environments and diet quality: implications for health promotion in regional Australia    ✍️ Alemayehu Digssie Gebremariam, Karen Charlton, Denis Visentin, Kelly Andrews, Katherine Kent   OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag014

Retraction Note: Influencer-Driven Gambling Content and its Impact on Children and Young People: A Scoping Study @retractionwatch.com link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Mandating health star ratings is a win. But food lobbies still have too much power over our health www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A brilliant conversation. Reflections on poverty, power and attention that could really help steer all of public health in a better direction. #ottawa40

Read the latest in our #ottawa40 series at @healthpromint.bsky.social A huge thank you to @seyeabimbola.bsky.social for this brilliant editorial! academic.oup.com/heapro/artic... You can listen to my podcast interview with Seye here: open.spotify.com/episode/2AbP...

If a student at my uni submitted this as their work I’d have to start an academic integrity investigation…https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/10/concerns-ai-slop-used-by-sydney-university-based-institute-to-lobby-for-20m-gambling-education-funding?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Concerns ‘AI slop’ used by Sydney University-based institute to lobby for $20m gambling education funding

“Protecting academic freedom, integrity, and the right to question those in positions of authority and power (including within the academic and health systems in which we work) is not ancillary to public health, but central to its purpose.” @healthpromint.bsky.social academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

“Cutting through the commercial noise that has been created about menopause is essential. Only then can we create the social and structural changes need to support women’s health & wellbeing in midlife.” My new article with Prof Martha Hickey @theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-hot-flus...

Excellent. Thanks to OUP for making this happen.

Oxford University Press has lifted the paywall on the entire 40 year archive of @healthpromint.bsky.social as part of our flip to fully open access! Check out the amazing work of our authors - free to read - here: academic.oup.com/heapro

We asked more than 500 women about how the cost of living crisis has affected them. Our findings should be a wakeup call to policymakers, with women reporting they’re struggling to afford basic essentials, food, rent, medication and doctor appointments. academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

Me in 1983 on BBC TV on the civil disobedience graffiti movement BUGA UP www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVM7.... My new 425p 50yr memoir looks at highlights across tobacco & gun control, defending windfarms, some heretical critiques of unethical policies +much more ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/ha...

Please share: One of my counselling psychology students is looking for Muslim women who are working in the UK to share their workplace experiences and any engagement they've had with workplace wellbeing initiatives. Click on the following link to find out more: uwe.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Ahead of Day 3 of the "pink test" In 2022-23 the McGrath foundation spent about $8.8m on “foundation-funded breast care nurses”, but more than $9.1m on fundraising and marketing, and a further $2.2m on administration." www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2024...

NEW 🔔 The Taichung Statement on Health Literacy (2025): sustaining action on health literacy to promote health for all ✍️ Peter Chang, Tuyen V Duong, Enny Rachmani, Terrence Min-Che, Stephan Van den Broucke, Diane Levin-Zamir, Samantha Thomas 🔗 FREE doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf220