Labor dropped their long-awaited gambling report on budget day. Were they betting no one would notice?

The Labor government decided to release its contentious, much-delayed response to Peta Murphy’s report on gambling on one of the biggest political news days of the year. They dropped it while the nation’s federal political journalists were trapped in budget lockup. Tuesday was the first parliament sitting day since the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, sketched out the rough shape of the government’s long-awaited response in his National Press Club speech on 2 April , and therefore the first …