Democracy Sausage: You win some, you lose more

Why has the government fallen so far short of the Murphy Report’s recommendations despite around 80 per cent of Australians wanting gambling ads banned? How did an under-resourced Northern Territory regulator end up overseeing a $34 billion-a-year industry? Why do inducements — not just the eye-watering ones, but the humble “here’s $100, have a punt” kind — count as predatory when someone’s trying to quit?

Charles Livingston is Associate Professor and head of the Gambling and Social Determinants Unit in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. 

Dr Marija Taflaga is the Director of the ANU Centre for the Study of Australian Politics and a Lecturer at the ANU School of Politics and International Relations.

Mark Kenny is the Director of the Australian Studies Institute. He came to the Australian National University after a high-profile journalistic career culminating in 6 years as chief political correspondent and national affairs editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and The Canberra Times.

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