Rather than treating gambling as the public health issue that it is and implementing evidence-based policy, the Albanese government has yet again put vested interests ahead of Australians."Martin Thomas from the Alliance for Gambling Reform said the government had "half adopted" only a "handful" of the bipartisan report's recommendations "Overall the Murphy report had a huge focus on treating gambling harm as a public health issue because it costs the nation a huge amount in health and social costs, and there's no indication the governments going down this track," he told SBS News on Wednesday.Albanese has told parliament the changes got the balance right between allowing adults to gamble and shielding young people."They will make a meaningful difference," Albanese said, with the changes to take effect by January.The legislation still needs to pass parliament, which means it will have to be voted in by the Senate, where the Labor government does not have a majority