Addressing Australia’s gambling problem

A QUT researcher has called for stronger government policy to regulate the online gambling environment, restrict marketing, establish behaviour change programs and provide better support for people with a gambling problem.

Cracking down on gambling

Proposals to limit the power and reach of the gambling lobby are long overdue, given the harm it wreaks on individuals, families and society as a whole.

Give gambling ads the boot from sport

Society gained from removing tobacco advertising from our TV screens and billboards and we should treat the pernicious and ubiquitous gambling adverts which have infected sport just the same.

Gambling’s a bad bet for sport

Online gambling companies are ploughing huge amounts of money into advertising, taking the position – and causing the harm – that tobacco companies once specialised in.

NSW gambles on pokie reform

Servicing drug dealers and preying on the bored, gullible and socially disadvantaged, NSW’s 89,000 poker machines raked in A$7.5 billion last year, and new measures from the state government look to clamp down on the system.

Gambling with our children’s future

Gambling adverts on social and traditional media need to be heavily restricted, if not stopped altogether to save another generation from harm.

Sport must break its gambling addiction

Gambling adverts pollute and pervert Australian coverage of sport to such a degree that much tougher action is needed to limit their corrosive influence on society.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears

Casinos are hotbeds of criminality and international money laundering, but the jobs and revenue they generate for state governments mean their supposedly strict controls mean next to nothing.

Sport is more than a gateway to gambling

Where tobacco advertising once dominated Australian sports, rapacious gambling companies now compete for the nation’s eyeballs, with consequences as bad for our pockets as cigarettes were to our lungs.

The chips are down for Crown Casinos

Revelations of criminality, corruption and money laundering through Crown casinos call into question the future of James Packer’s gambling empire.

Gambling with sport’s integrity

Those who profit from gambling usually emphasise the fun it may involve. But the potential for corruption of the sport that people love is enormous.

Life’s a gamble

Advertisements for gambling and online betting tell us to “gamble responsibly”. But what does this mean in reality? And how can you gamble responsibly online when another bet is just a click or swipe away?