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Sausages and cauldrons: Making law and policy in 21st Century Australia
David Rowe | December 2, 2024The divergent fates of proposed federal legislation to restrict social media use by children and online gambling adverts for everyone highlight the complex interplay of public concern, political convenience and vested interest lobbying which shapes policy making in contemporary Australia.
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The biggest game in town
Open Forum | October 26, 2024The global health impact of commercial gambling is worse than previously understood and stronger regulatory controls are needed, according to a new Lancet Public Health Commission report.
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Gambling fast and slow
Matthew Rockloff | October 21, 2024Just as there is ‘slow’ and ‘fast’ thinking, so there are ‘slow’ and ‘fast’ ways to gamble and, unsurprisingly, it’s the adrenaline hits delivered by poker machines and sports betting which are most likely to lead gamblers into trouble.
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Gambling’s not a game
Elizabeth Baldwin | September 7, 2024The gambling industry reaps billions of dollars from Australians every year without any regard for the social harm or individual misery it leaves in its wake.
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Rigging the odds against gambling reform
Ross Gordon | August 18, 2024Gambling, like tobacco and alcohol before it, causes massive social harm, so why is the government so reluctant to ban gambling advertising?
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Addressing Australia’s gambling problem
Patrick Whyte | October 28, 2023A 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.
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Cracking down on gambling
Charles Livingstone | July 1, 2023Proposals 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.
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Give gambling ads the boot from sport
Charles Livingstone | May 20, 2023Society 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.
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Gambling’s a bad bet for sport
Carolyn Holbrook | March 8, 2023Online gambling companies are ploughing huge amounts of money into advertising, taking the position – and causing the harm – that tobacco companies once specialised in.
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NSW gambles on pokie reform
Charles Livingstone | February 9, 2023Servicing 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.
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Gambling with our children’s future
Charles Livingstone | November 12, 2022Gambling adverts on social and traditional media need to be heavily restricted, if not stopped altogether to save another generation from harm.
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Sport must break its gambling addiction
Charles Livingstone | November 7, 2022Gambling 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.