Nothing, as the saying goes, is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.

And that applies double when the idea is so obvious it would kill a brown dog.

The idea in question right now is: let’s stop the saturation of every damn sports event with wall-to-wall gambling advertising. Let’s protect our kids, ourselves and, most particularly, those who can’t help themselves by getting sucked into the gaping maw of an industry where every adherent – no exceptions – loses in the long term.

It’s a subject your humble correspondent has been banging on about for years, and it now looks to be close to achieving a critical bipartisan mass [in Australia] – and pushed hard by the Teals – to bring in the legislation to, if not stop it, at least limit the damage.

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