Gambling Abc

Australians lose around $24 billion a year from gambling, per head of population we lose more than any country in the world, over double the average of countries like the US, New Zealand and Ireland.

1. Gambling Act

The majority comes from poker machine losses, but increasingly thousands of young men are losing money on sports betting — an industry that is spending up big on marketing and advertising.
The clubs that house the majority of poker machines and the sports betting companies benefit from generous tax breaks, yet there's very little transparency about how this industry works.

• Gambling news stories - get the latest updates from ABC7.
• The ABC model can be helpful for understanding the role gambling plays in your life. It involves looking at the people, places or events that may trigger your gambling as well as the behaviours and consequences that result.

We want your help to find out more about what happens behind the scenes of Australia's gambling industry; to hear from people who have worked inside the industry and those who have lost big money.
We'd like to know:

• The tactics used to keep punters punting
• Whether technology is being used to maximise losses and minimise payouts
• How lobbying campaigns target the politicians responsible for regulating the gambling industry
• Whether responsible gambling codes of conduct are enforced and if they make a difference

Every person who deals, plays, or carries on, opens, or causes to be opened, or who conducts, either as owner or employee, whether for hire or not, any game of faro, monte, roulette, lansquenet, rouge et noire, rondo, tan, fan-tan, seven-and-a-half, twenty-one, hokey-pokey, or any banking or percentage game played with cards, dice, or any device, for money, checks. The Division of ABC regulates the sale of alcoholic beverages and the conduct of licensees through the issuance of licenses. If a licensee violates any laws or regulations, the Director may suspend or revoke the license or impose a fine and/or any other appropriate conditions on the holder of such licenses.

We want to assure you than any information you give us will be treated as strictly confidential. We won't publish anything you tell us or identify you without getting your permission.
The ABC is using the Screendoor tool for this survey. The ABC's Crowdsourcing Collection Statement applies to any information you provide.

Gambling Act