As the Australian government dithers on banning gambling ads, a new global gambling report highlights the immense pain and suffering wrought by the industry.
New data from Victoria shows that in a quarter of deaths by suicide between 2009 and 2016, the person had experienced family violence before they died.
Understanding why chronic gamblers chase wins could help develop strategies to better-control their behaviour.
Cancelling Crown’s licence would have sent a very clear message that no entity is too big to fail. The achievement of effective regulation, including effective protection for vulnerable people, remains some way off.
The Victorian government has announced major reforms intended to reduce harm caused by poker machines, but the gambling industry won’t accept these changes quietly.
If implemented, the recommendations of Australia’s online gambling inquiry will advance regulation by several orders of magnitude.
No one can say Australian sport is worse off without tobacco ads. We can protect a new generation of young sports fans from harm by following other nations’ leads and phasing out gambling ads.
TikTok’s hosting of sports betting ads underlines the pervasiveness of the problem. It’s increasingly clear gambling advertising needs to be heavily restricted, if not stopped altogether.
Fixing the culture of individual casino operators is one thing. Fixing the political culture that allowed them to run amok is another.
Gambling during homelessness is sometimes motivated out of desperation, and in the hope of financial gain.
Whether the Victorian royal commission leads to a more responsible gambling industry depends on the recommendations the state government has kicked down the road.
Crown Resorts’ contribution to Victoria is at the core of its attempts to keep its casino licence. But the costs of the state keeping the casino may well be greater.
Helen Coonan's evidence to the Victorian royal commission into Crown Melbourne shows how entrenched the gaming company’s cultural problems are.
Colloquially known as ‘Nifties’, non-fungible tokens have recently hit the headlines. But is there any real value in a digital asset?
The commission has an ambitious timeline to report back by August. In the meantime, it will be fascinating to observe how Crown remakes itself.
Addiction remains shrouded in stigma, while the system through which we provide addiction treatment in Australia is fragmented and failing. There's no better time to address these issues.
We’re tackling a new topic on this episode of Monash podcast, What Happens Next?, looking at masculinity, and how its negative forms can be as damaging to men as women.
The tactics used by the Australian gaming machine lobby are disturbingly similar to those of the NRA in the US.
Pokies clubs and other gambling operators have had their charitable contributions exposed by new research.
Regulatory failure in gambling runs deep, and is a major political problem.
Innovative treatment approaches to compulsions and addictions are the focus of the new neuroscience research lab, BrainPark.
Understanding how our brain responds to good and bad food choices could help combat the world's obesity epidemic.
Nick Xenophon has backed away from the “no pokies” policy that characterised his earlier approach to gambling reform.
Bid to force slot machine changes to better reflect winning chances fails in historic court case.
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