Australians spend more money gambling online per person than anywhere else in the world. Now, the Federal Government has launched a new initiative to help change that. BetStop lets Australian exclude themselves from online gambling, but will it work? In the deep dive, we’ll look at what these bans are trying to achieve and whether or not they’ll help Australians stop betting.
Online gambling help requests surged in the past financial year, new data obtained by TDA has shown. Here’s how it compared across Australia.
How will a gambling ban work? It won’t be applied to all problem gamblers but will stop some from placing bets online. Here are the details
A parliamentary committee wants to ban all online gambling ads, which are common in the sports world.
Two-thirds of those who gamble on sports are at risk of gambling-related harm, including addiction, relationship breakdown and financial hardship.
In today’s deep dive we’ll look at how likely these reforms are to go ahead, and what impact they would have on the sports bodies with a lot to lose.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
