Decisive regulation of social media is akin to the enfranchisement of women as a piece of revolutionary social policy reform. This is the enfranchisement of childhood.

Across its multiple forms, the gambling industry is able to dictate terms to major party politicians at the state and federal level, with vast indifference to the social disaster it causes.

Mounties’ customers wagered $4 billion over a four-year period. But at least $140 million of those bets were placed by customers who should have been flagged as suspicious.

Residents lost $2.17billion to poker machines in the first quarter of 2025. This has consequences.

The chief executive of AUSTRAC is concerned that the crackdown on casinos has displaced illicit activity into pubs and clubs.

The first time Kate Seselja used a poker machine she won $1000. It was the last time she left a venue with cash in her hand from the addictive machines.

NSW Gaming Minister David Harris tears strips off the statutory appointee as Labor boldly hits the revenue re-spin feature.

The public wants the ads banned but the government keeps bowing to pressure. Now, with its whopping majority, what’s the excuse?

The Albanese government has failed to respond to the Murphy Report on gambling for two years - while Australians lost more than $50 billion.

Gambling losses become Daniel Mookhey's big gain as Treasury hits the re-spin feature, with the pub pokie take forecast to grow by 7.2%.

Daniel Mookhey is a good treasurer. But on poker machine tax reform he has revealed himself to be disappointingly weak

The effects can be powerful enough, governments should consider regulating lights in casinos.

ClubsNSW last night announced the winners of its awards for community service. But the real awards should be for increasing poker machine profits from gambling addicts.

Wesley Mission says the ‘devastating impact deepens every day’ with western Sydneysiders accounting for $2m an hour lost to pokies

Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it

Pokies are responsible for more than half of gambling problems in Australia. So why do politicians resist reform?

As gambling companies increasingly target young people, many are becoming frustrated by a lack of government action to protect them from gambling harms.

Calls are growing to ban betting ads in light of new research showing Aussie kids spend $18 million gambling each year.

Today on the campaign trail the leaders talked tough on Trump's tariff war, thousands of people enrolled to vote and the prime minister took a tumble.

The statewide introduction of a cashless gaming card must be the guiding light of reform.

The $31.5bn lost each year likened to a ‘hidden, unspoken black hole’ that cost-of-living policies have not addressed • Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australians are losing more money to gambling each year than the federal…

Exclusive: Critics say inducements are harmful and urge a ban as recommended by Murphy inquiry

The segments are often presented by former players who spruik multi bets, for which the odds of winning are much slimmer.

The White House blocked an Associated Press reporter from attending an event in the Oval Office after demanding the news agency alter its style on the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump has ...

Poker machine reforms were the unifying factor for three new MPs.

Our TV screens and digital spaces are filled with sportsgambling ads. They entice people to gamble more than they want, and they tell our kids that sport = betting. Gambling marketing is all over athl...

Robert Keldoulis and his investment firm Keldoulis Investments poured $1.1m into the fundraising vehicle last year

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In a 95-minute period on August 30, Anthony Albanese spoke with the country’s major sporting and TV bosses about his draft gambling ad policy.

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How our gadgets, from tea kettles to Twitter, signal their needs and condition our behavior.” Or “How resounding objects intone our complex relationships with technology.

With the news that NSW gamblers have wracked up record losses in the past few months, welfare groups and community…

The Australian Defence Force failed the veteran and treated his widow “appallingly”, a coroner has found.

In one council area, more than $2 million a day was poured into poker machines during a three-month period, leaving gambling reform advocates furious.