There is reason to suggest new reforms, such a banning credit bets and establishing a self-exclusion register, will have some impact in helping to tackle problem gambling online.
Sports betting has become a high-profile part of the rugby league’s income and branding.
Karl Monaghan
Restrictions on gambling advertisements may be effective in helping those with problems manage their urges to gamble.
William Hill is among the online bookies to be registered in the Northern Territory, where the tax and regulatory environment is more favourable.
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No state wants to see its revenue base decline – particularly when the jurisdiction benefiting doesn’t even tax (or regulate) its bookies as well as it might.
Sports betting in Australia has been growing rapidly in recent years – all that advertising seems to be paying off.
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Polls suggest that Nick Xenophon’s team will win a bag of Senate seats. Along with a re-elected Andrew Wilkie, and the Greens, will there be enthusiasm for gambling reform in the next parliament?
Are the odds in favor of big computer-assisted bettors?
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Are regular bettors and the house helped or hurt when deep-pocketed, high-volume computer-assisted bettors are wagering? Mathematicians used game theory to model this new wrinkle in parimutuel betting.
The government has vowed to close a loophole that allows some online bookmakers to circumvent the ban on online in-play betting.
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Online wagering is likely to be very harmful to a new generation of gamblers who habitually use mobile devices. It has the capacity to be very high intensity.
Tennis provides an excellent example of a sport of global significance being tainted by gambling’s influence.
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The current controversy over match-fixing in tennis has some ironic elements. Anyone watching the Australian Open on free-to-air TV will notice the proliferation of sports betting ads.
Will sports betting ever expand beyond Nevada?
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Betting on sports has been illegal in most states since 1992. Is it time that changed?
Former minister Peter Garrett retracted claims about receiving cash in an envelope from a representative of a gambling industry lobby group.
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The fledgling industry faces a minefield that could undermine its valuation and growth.
Those concerned with the growing harms of online gambling will be disappointed with the terms of reference of a new Australian review.
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At least 75% of those with a gambling problem have it because of poker machines in clubs or pubs. Yet we see little concern from the government about this group.
Gambling ads are everywhere professional sport is played, from players’ guernseys to stadium displays and on television.
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Football games are now watched through a haze of statistics, generated by betting, fantasy football and video games.
The Bulldogs beat the Pathers in the preliminary final - but can the underdogs do it again in this weekend’s NRL Grand Final against the Rabbitohs?
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When the final siren sounds at Sydney’s Olympic Stadium on Sunday night either the South Sydney Rabbitohs or Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs will be crowned as 2014 National Rugby League (NRL) Premiers…
What are the odds? Bookmaker Tom Waterhouse has sold his online gambling business to UK giant William Hill for over $30 million.
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That bookmaker Tom Waterhouse has sold his eponymous company to British bookmaking powerhouse William Hill is no surprise. Waterhouse’s recent very public bid for recognition and market share was widely…