GAMBLING is a significant public health issue globally and particularly in Australia, which has the highest rates of gambling expenditure per capita in the world.
Analyses of official statistics were produced most recently for the 201718 financial year, when Australians lost $25 billion (summary table D) across products including electronic gaming machines ($12.7 billion), casinos [table games] ($4.9 billion), race betting ($3.5 billion), and sports betting ($1.0 billion).
These losses represent major sources of revenue for the gambling industry and Australian governments, with gambling taxation in Victoria, for example, comprising $1.6$2.0 billion annually over recent years. This equates to 6.58.5% of all taxation revenue for the stat…
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