Just revoke all casino licenses Australia-wide. They clearly don't deserve to hold them. Any of them. #GamblingHarm https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/qld/2023/08/02/star-fined-casino-breaches/

"How Australia can tackle its enormous gambling problem".

The first step is admitting it. Australians everywhere are in denial about Australia's gambling problem.

https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2023/07/06/alan-kohler-australia-gambling-problem/ #GamblingHarm #FuckGambling

New today in our Intouch #PublicHealth blog: It’s time to put money aside & respond to community need when it comes to #GamblingHarm. Read: https://bit.ly/3NVgNUe

100% with Zoe Daniels on this one. A business model that relies on causing harm must end.

I absolutely loathe the social license gambling organisations have bought through sponsoring kids sports. People supporting / justifying pokies and pokie addiction by the community sport it "enables" that "wouldn't happen without that money".

The ends should never justify the means. The means should always be able to stand on its own two feet.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/29/sporting-codes-gambling-revenue-is-not-sacrosanct-a-business-model-that-relies-on-causing-harm-must-end #GamblingHarm #FuckGambling

Comittee recommends gambling ads should be banned within three years.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/28/ads-for-online-gambling-should-be-banned-in-australia-within-three-years-inquiry-recommends

I heartily endorse this recommendation, but can't see it happening. Especially with the NRL getting more in bed with gambling companies and courting the US betting markets.

#FuckGambling #GamblingHarm #AusPol

Canberra Times demonstrating its ongoing commitment to community safety

#Canberra #GamblingHarm

And as expected now all anyone is talking about in that thread are the betting markets.

I hate that I can't talk about sport without the conversation devolving in to purely being about betting markets, odds, where to place money and how much. Now I have to put up with that shit in TV show discussions too?

Australians seriously cannot just enjoy something for what it is. It _HAS_ to be about the gambling take on it.

Australia has a gambling problem. Australians collectively are in denial about it. #FuckGambling #GamblingHarm

JFC. Australia has a gambling problem.

An Australian betting site is taking bets on what will happen in the plot of a fictional tv show. Whether Shiv will become CEO of Waystar.

The things you can bet on are just fucked up. This industry is VERY out of fucking control. #FuckGambling #GamblingHarm

How in the actual fuck is $13,200 the maximum fine allowable for an industry that turns over $50b annually?

Talk about the law being designed to be inept and ineffective. #GamblingHarm #FuckGambling https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/apr/28/sports-gambling-giants-ladbrokes-and-neds-first-to-be-fined-under-australias-in-play-betting-laws

So newscorp's new gambling company that is less than 12 months old has been in trouble for promoting gambling to those on addiction lists who should NOT be contacted, and now for illegally promoting 100-to-1 odds to attract customers.

Starting off on the right foot, being the scum that both gambling AND newscorp companies are. #FuckGambling #GamblingHarm

https://michaelwest.com.au/betr-lashed-for-illegal-100-to-1-nsw-promotions/

On 1 May in Adelaide, PHAA & the Alliance for Gambling Reform will co-host a symposium on tackling #GamblingHarm. We've a range of speakers incl. Assoc Prof Charles Livingstone (Monash Uni) & Dr Jennifer Lacy Nichols, who specialises in the commercial determinants of health. Register Register: https://bit.ly/GamblingSymposium23 #Prevention2023

Gambling is so ingrained in Austrailan culture that even I, someone who's VERY anti-gambling, really struggled to phrase that toot without using gambling terms. Without myself saying "willing to bet" in a purely figurative fashion. #GamblingHarm #FuckGambling

BetNation fined $13,770 after sending email Melbourne Cup promotion to 772 problem gamblers.

Who else here looks at the amount fined, and thinks it's probably a drop in the ocean compared to the money they made from those 772 people?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/08/betting-company-fined-after-emailing-melbourne-cup-promotion-to-hundreds-of-problem-gamblers #GamblingHarm #FuckGambling

I too fail to see what Perrottet's catholocism has to do with his stance on gambling. Seems like a weird dig to me.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-31/perrottet-responds-to-catholic-gut-comment-clubs-nsw/101910136

"It came after ClubsNSW boss Josh Landis was quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning saying the premier's position was causing "hyper-anxiety" in the gaming industry."

I mean ... good? The gambling industry having hyper-anxiety can only be a positive? That line makes me support Daddy Dom's stance. #nswpol #gambling #GamblingHarm #Pokies #PokiesHarm #FuckGambling

this short video is a great example of govt-academia collab to apply #behavioralscience to address #gamblingharm https://behaviouraleconomics.pmc.gov.au/projects/applying-behavioural-insights-online-wagering

This is what gambling normalisation does. It results in problem gambling. Truly believing in something shouldn't need to be proven by putting money down. If you earnestly believe that, you have a gambling problem.

Australia has a gambling problem. Australians are in denial about it. #GamblingHarm #noxp

I put on the cricket and the first thing is a fucking long gambling ad. -grr- #GamblingHarm #FuckGambling #AUSvENG