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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Henry Belot

University of Sydney gambling research centre bankrolled by casinos is ‘troubling’, experts say

Visitors try out poker machines at the G2E Asia gaming expo in Singapore
The University of Sydney has launched its Centre of Excellence in Gambling Research with funding from some of the world’s biggest gambling companies. Photograph: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images

Public health experts have criticised the University of Sydney for accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from some of the world’s biggest gambling companies and casinos, which are bankrolling a new research centre that will examine their conduct.

But the researchers and the university believe the partnership will produce more useful research that limits consumer harm, and one of the gambling companies involved has warned against “emotional rhetoric” from critics.

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