{"id":299217,"date":"2025-10-10T18:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=299217"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T08:07:16","slug":"senator-david-pocock-banned-from-parliamentary-sports-club-over-gambling-sponsorship-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=299217","title":{"rendered":"Senator David Pocock Banned from Parliamentary Sports Club Over Gambling Sponsorship Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Independent Senator David Pocock was expelled from the Parliamentary Sports Club after questioning its sponsorship by Responsible Wagering Australia and its registration as a lobbying entity during Senate estimates hearings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the club&#8217;s president, intervened to urge Pocock&#8217;s reinstatement, calling the ban excessive, leading to a reinvitation by Thursday evening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Independent MPs Monique Ryan and Allegra Spender resigned from the club in protest over its gambling industry ties, highlighting concerns about lobbying influence in Parliament House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the club&#8217;s president, intervened to urge Pocock&#8217;s reinstatement, calling the ban excessive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":299218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[5982,18282],"class_list":["post-299217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-canberra","tag-david-pocock"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299219,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299217\/revisions\/299219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/299218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}