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More than 500 new poker machines installed in NSW despite Chris Minns promising to slash numbers

Total number of machines in state increased from 87,094 in March last year to 87,644 in October

The Guardian - AU

NSW pokies club promoted rewards scheme on first day of gambling harm awareness week, emails show

Members urged to ‘use your mobile phone to quickly tap and connect to a gaming machine’, potentially at odds with gambling ad ban

The Guardian - AU

John Howard ‘left of Albanese’ on gambling reform, Costello declares as Labor ditches watchdog

Chief advocate of the Alliance for Gambling Reform says government failed to deliver the late Peta Murphy’s three most important recommendations

The Guardian - AU

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Will Australia’s free-to-air TV really be in ‘diabolical trouble’ without gambling ad revenue?

Labor appears poised to push forward with a watered-down partial ad ban. How much money do TV networks really make from gambling promotions?

The Guardian - AU

Labor’s partial gambling ad ban ‘manifestly inadequate’, advocates warn after talks with government

Proposed bans on online ads and inducements would make a difference to problem gambling, campaigners concede

The Guardian - AU

Fact check: would a gambling ad ban damage children’s sport in Australia?

The peak body for betting organisations says gambling is not normalised for children, but young people report having good brand recall

The Guardian - AU

‘Lost in the product’: How the gambling industry creates problem gamblers

The gambling industry has been perfecting ways to manipulate and disorient you for decades. Online gambling is just an easily accessible extension of that.

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Calls grow for poker machine reforms after gambler takes own life

Set a limit on losses for gamblers so they can't succumb to addiction - campaigners

The Canberra Times

‘How many chances do they get?’: second review into Star’s Sydney casino may lead to its licence being revoked

While analysts are asking why the licence was not cancelled after the first inquiry in 2022, thousands of jobs are at stake

The Guardian - AU

Pokies venues owned by AFL clubs claim renovations and pay tv subscriptions as ‘community benefit’

Venues owned by four clubs legally claimed a total of $8.6m in operating costs under Victorian scheme

The Guardian - AU

‘Desperate’ Australians losing billions more to pokies during cost-of-living crisis, researcher warns

NSW gaming machine losses average $22m a day as some states see rises of more than 30% on pre-Covid levels

The Guardian - AU

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

Institution says companies won’t ‘constrain or edit’ research, but public health expert Sean Cowlishaw calls funding relationship ‘unprecedented’

The Guardian - AU

‘Should be closed after midnight’: experts warn 4am pokies closures in Victoria will do little to stop harm

Proposed mandatory closing times will still allow 361 venues to remain open after 2am, data suggests

The Guardian - AU

News Corp Australia publishes lottery promotions presented as news stories about winners

Media giant is paid for publishing the articles and receives a share of ticket sales through links on the page

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Reformed NSW gambler helping others recover from addiction to poker machines

It is 22 years to the day since Maria felt the familiar rush of dopamine after feeding her last $50 bill into a poker machine.

ABC News

Online casinos based offshore are illegally targeting Australians on Facebook. Who is responsible?

A series of advertisements for an online casino that target Australians are being shown on Facebook. The case has reopened the debate about how easy it is for offshore businesses to use the internet to evade Australian law, writes Casey Briggs.

Crikey

How the pokies came to decide who gets to run New South Wales

With gambling reform one of the major issues of the coming state election, Crikey looks at how the gaming lobby has held both parties back from meaningful reform for decades.

The Guardian - AU

NT gambling regulator admits not telling bookmakers of 48 addicts who asked to be banned

Exclusive: oversight by commission that licenses majority of Australia’s online betting companies branded as ‘disgraceful’ by advocates

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Online gambling industry regulation back in focus during inquiry's hearings

John's addiction to online gambling cost him everything. Now he and advocacy groups are calling for more scrutiny on whether betting companies' interventions for problem gamblers are being done responsibly.

Newcastle Herald

How Hunter clubs count on pokie cash

Many clubs make more than half their money from customers' gambling losses.

Newcastle Herald

$1200 per adult: How Newcastle loses on the pokies

A university gambling expert says the average poker machine user in NSW loses $4500 a year.

The Guardian - AU

NSW Coalition split on cashless gaming as independent warns against regional exemptions

Premier Dominic Perrottet rules out different rules for clubs and pubs in the bush, in contrast to deputy premier Paul Toole

ABC News

We fact-checked Samantha Ratnam's claim that Victorians have lost $66 billion at the pokies. Here's what we found.

Samantha Ratnam says Victorians have lost $66 billion on the pokies. But that figure does not account for inflation — or the losses that have occurred at Crown Casino.

The National (Scotland)

UK accused of 'outrageous power grab' as experts sound alarm over EU law bill

THE UK Government has been accused of yet another Holyrood "power grab" after legal as issued a warning over Tory legislation on Brexit.

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s gambling addiction: can politics finally stop the money wheel turning?

The $25bn lost on gambling annually comes mostly from those who can least afford it, but repeated attempts at policy reform have foundered. In the first part of a new series we ask why, and whether that may be about to change

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