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Analysis-Slots to smartphones: pandemic sends Australia's gambling problem online

For Rhys Wareham, a coffee industry technician from Sydney, the start of COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 did not just mean staying home, but having to stop visiting the pub every afternoon to gamble on poker machines.

James Packer to Crikey: I should have driven Sportsbet’s multibillion-dollar rise

James Packer to Crikey: I should have driven Sportsbet’s multibillion-dollar rise

What keeps James Packer up at night? Apparently a ‘failing’ that it wasn’t him and Crown that built a now foreign-owned gambling giant.

AFL cashes in on Australia’s gambling addiction. But isn’t it time for a pokies buyback scheme?

AFL cashes in on Australia’s gambling addiction. But isn’t it time for a pokies buyback scheme?

Australians are the world’s biggest gamblers in per capita terms, and state and federal governments are doing little to nothing to fix the crisis.

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Pay up: mining and gambling companies told not to expect sympathy over Queensland tax hikes

Campaigns against changes to coal royalties and betting taxes given short shrift by government and advocates

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Australia’s mainstream media is stumbling from crisis to crisis

Australia’s media landscape is turning into a disaster area littered by examples of spectacular misjudgment.

A deluge of gambling ads and odds — with no policy debate anywhere

Australians are some of the world’s biggest gamblers. Yet efforts to address this financial drain on the public are few and far between.

A generation of children increasingly think gambling is inextricably linked with the AFL

Codes say without betting sponsorships we cannot have top-tier play but there is nothing inevitable about having gambling so intertwined with sports

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Gambling giant cops mammoth spam fine

Gambling giant cops mammoth spam fine

Sportsbet has copped a $2.5 million fine and will refund $1.2 million in bets for spamming customers who had tried to unsubscribe from marketing.

Sportsbet to pay $3.7m in fines and penalties for sending 150,000 unwanted gambling ad messages

Sportsbet to pay $3.7m in fines and penalties for sending 150,000 unwanted gambling ad messages

Online bookie will pay customers who made bets after receiving marketing spam

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