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?

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.

Pokies, guns and money

The strong-arm tactics used by Australia’s gambling industry to maximise their profits and evade social responsibility resemble those of the National Rifle Association in the United States of America.

The great poker machine charity con

Gambling operators often trumpet their funding of “good causes”, but research in Victoria suggests the charitable giving claimed by operators to reap tax benefits falls far short of their claims.