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Monique Ryan quits parliament’s sports club over gambling lobby links, describing it as ‘influence by stealth’

Crossbench MP Monique Ryan has quit federal parliament’s sports club hours after it was listed as an official lobbyist group with clients in the gambling, alcohol and fossil fuel industries.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, I’m not signing up for any parliamentary sports club which serves up gambling industry lobbying with its early morning basketball games. I’m resigning from the club today.

While Australians wait for the government to take serious action on gambling harm, the Australian Parliamentary Sports Club - chaired by the prime minister himself - is acting on behalf of clients that include the gambling industry.

This is a very widely used drug as everyone knows, and we want to make sure that we look very closely at any announcement from the US, particularly if it comes through the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA.

We’ll look at it very closely, our TGA works very closely with the FDA obviously and I want to make sure that we have advice for pregnant women in particular, very quickly.

Source: Guardian - World News