I think it's disingenuous to claim Xenaphon has been trying to help us. Going back over things from my memory of him pushing for sites like FT and PS to be put on the ACMA blacklist back around black friday brought me to this IGA committee report from 2011 that he was on.
http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_...ing/report/c07
"Specifically the IGA should be amended to capture methods of avoidance such as websites which provide links to facilitate access to prohibited interactive gambling services."
Yet the PC report in to the IGA, tabled and discusses as part of this inquiry had the following to say about poker
"7.75 The PC outlined why it believed that online poker could be liberalised:
it has a different character to poker machines;
it is seen as a game of skill;
there is no evidence that players experience the trance-like states that occur when playing EGMs;
there is a social dimension in that one plays against other people so it is very interactive;
other games can be played much more quickly and the stakeholder for other games is the casino; and
the ground rules that apply, with players competing for a pot of money to which they contribute, limits losses.[84]"
This is in 2011, in an inquiry that he was a part of where the PC stated that poker should be carved out and he and the other members like Wilkie have zero credibility to claim they have any desire to see online poker exempt from the IGA