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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Malcolm Farr

Can Labor win the war on gambling advertising or will it capitulate in a brutal betrayal?

Labor Anthony Albanese Peter Dutton Barnaby Joyce Keith Pitt Peta Murphy House of Representatives
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The gambling industry in Australia is estimated to be worth $425bn a year and growing. Photograph: Михаил Руденко/Getty Images/iStockphoto

When it comes to culture wars there are few more fiercely defended bastions than the culture of gambling in Australia, where resistance to change can be brutal.

The money involved is massive and so is the political peril faced by any government willing to take the industry on.

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