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Matt Hancock wants a new levy to tackle gambling harms, but it's a lost opportunity unless you spend it the right way.
When you engage in recreational gambling, you're not simply playing against the odds – you're battling an enemy trained in the art of deceit and subterfuge who uses human nature against you.
That the government has finally moved to limit the damage is welcome, but there is much still to do.
The Australian Hotels Association of South Australia claims poker machine reforms proposed by Nick Xenophon's SA Best party would wipe out 'many of the 26,000' jobs in the hotel industry. Is that right?
Nick Xenophon says the proposals encapsulated in his party’s gambling policy for the South Australian election are just the start of a wider push for reform.
Disadvantage predicts the extent of poker machine losses far more in Tasmania than in other Australian states and territories.
On December 30, 1967 the UK's highest court drew a line in the sand over the rise of casinos. Here's what happened next.
Research that studied the pokie risks gamblers were prepared to take after they held a live crocodile has been awarded one of this year's Ig Nobel prizes.
Gambling has impacts on many aspects of life – including employment, income and wealth. The release of HILDA's latest survey provides more evidence to help inform decisions on gambling policy.
Fantasy sports began as a niche hobby for statistically inclined sports fanatics. But, with the internet, it has evolved into a multi-billion-dollar industry.
While fewer people are gambling on the pokies, the amount of money lost per gambler has remained relatively constant over time.
For some people, fixed-odds betting terminals are ferociously addictive, producing big profits for bookies and a rise in problem gambling. What's the solution?
It is gambling, especially online and mobile, that has come into focus as sport’s most potentially damaging byproduct.
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.
In Tasmania, a changing cast of actors has colluded to grant extreme riches to a single family, extracted in large part from the state’s most disadvantaged citizens.
Restrictions on gambling advertisements may be effective in helping those with problems manage their urges to gamble.
The gambling industry continues to make handsome donations to our politicians, and recently named some of those it supports.
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.
The harm pokies cause is widespread and tends to affect those already under significant stress. $1 bets are a good first step toward reducing this harm.
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Research Fellow, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, School of Business and Tourism, Southern Cross University
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Senior Lecturer (Geographic Information Systems), Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Clinical Psychologist, University of Sydney
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Professor of Social Science, University of Glasgow
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PhD Student, Monash University
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Researcher, School of Psychology, University of Sydney
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Head, Experimental Gambling Research Lab, CQUniversity Australia
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Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Professor and Director of International Primary Health Care research Institute, Shenzhen, Australian National University
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Professor, Federation University Australia
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Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
