Federal and state implement a package of reforms to make gambling less pervasive and governments should brave the vested interests and work together in safer. [...] About one in three Australians gamble regularly.3 This report focuses on pokies and betting, the most damaging forms of Figure 1.2: Australians lose $24 billion a year gambling, mostly on gambling in Australia today.4 Together, pokies and betting account for pokies and betting three-quarters of total gambling losses. [...] companies and receive a cut of the money bet on their games – so they have financial incentives to promote gambling among fans.34 Official Australian governments were some of the first in the world to apps display the odds for every game alongside the score.35 deregulate gaming.39 The NSW Government legalised pokies in 36 the community in 1956; few other countries (or states) followed suitBetting. [...] Gambling ads and promotion of betting odds are not of the gambling industry. [...] Online gambling is accessible, immersive, and enables seamless, high- The unpredictable size and pattern of many gambling wins and speed spending.53 Online betting products increasingly share some of losses continually activates the brain’s reward system, reinforcing the pokies’ design characteristics, such as short payout intervals and high behaviour.46 And quitting gambling activates brain regio.
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