Gambling losses in Australia are now close to $23 billion. What’s driving this? And do we need to reform gambling regulation?
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There were 1.39m gambling ads on television in 2012.
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 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.
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.
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.
Betting on sports has been illegal in most states since 1992. Is it time that changed?
The gambling industry knows how to wield power, and does it with great expertise, backed by significant resources.
The fledgling industry faces a minefield that could undermine its valuation and growth.
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.
Sports betting hasn’t quite got the hold on Australians that poker machines have – yet. We can stop the harm from growing if we act early.
In-play football bets may prove tempting, but they’re engineered so that the odds fall firmly in the bookmakers’ favour.
A perfect storm of personalities, demand and money has created unprecedented hype. How should the media respond?
Football games are now watched through a haze of statistics, generated by betting, fantasy football and video games.
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…
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…
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
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