Gambling on change

The newly re-elected Labor Government should bite the bullet of reform and curb the rise of heavily promoted online sports betting and ubiquity of poker machines to protect the Australian people it professes to care about, rather than pander to gambling industry lobby groups.

Pokie madness

Poker machines line the walls of clubs and pubs – and the coffers of governments and venues – but there are ways to tame this gambling gorilla.

Don’t bet on an gambling advert ban

The federal government is set to limit online gambling adverts in response to a parliamentary inquiry, but only a total ban on gambling advertising will help reduce its toll on the public.

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.

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.

Crime club

Billions of dollars in drug money are funnelled through poker machines in clubs and pubs in New South Wales, according to the NSW Crime Commission, but the gambling industry still claims its not a problem – or that it’s too difficult to solve.

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.

Will blocking illegal offshore sites help Australians kick gambling?

Banning unregulated foreign gambling websites is only a small step to helping Australians throw less money away and reducing the harm caused to families and society as a result.