Ads, sports and games: how gambling infiltrated Australian culture
All In The Mind
ABC Australia
4.5 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
If you're watching sport or browsing social media, odds are you will come across gambling ads. If you work in an office, you might've joined Melbourne Cup or footy tipping comps.
In Australia, it can feel like gambling is everywhere.
Today, we look at how everything from video games to shopping sites seem to be priming us for betting-like behaviours, and how the ubiquity of gambling ads is influencing young people in particular.
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Guests:
Dr Hannah PittVicHealth Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Health Transformation Deakin University
Dr Anastasia HronisClinical psychologistLecturer, University of Technology Sydney
Nic BloomMental health first aid trainerWellbeing facilitator and speaker
Credits:
- Presenter/producer: Sana Qadar
- Senior producer: James Bullen
- Producer: Rose Kerr
- Sound engineer: Ann-Marie de Bettencor
Resources:
- Gambling Help Online or over the phone 1800 858 858
- Lifeline resources
Extra information:
- Meta-analysis of the relationship between problem gambling, excessive gaming and loot box spending
- Young people's recall and perceptions of gambling advertising and intentions to gamble on sport
- "It's just everywhere!" Children and parents discuss the marketing of sports wagering in Australia
- Gambling activity among Australian teenagers
Transcript
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| 0:25.2 | Mushroom Case Daily. |
| 0:26.9 | Hear the podcast on the ABC Listen app. |
| 0:29.8 | When I speak to people about gambling, I rarely hear someone sing its praises. |
| 0:35.1 | Like most people are on board with wanting a reduction in gambling, |
| 0:38.7 | advertising and wanting more kind of restrictions around it. Do you ever gamble? |
| 0:44.8 | So I'm from Wollongong in New South Wales and that really is the club's heartland. |
| 0:49.7 | Hannah Pitt has. I've played the pokies before. I've, you know, I haven't really put too much of a bed on, you know, Melbourne Cup and |
| 0:57.0 | those kind of things. |
| 0:58.0 | But has is the operative word because she doesn't do it very often and it's mostly been in the |
| 1:03.0 | past. |
| 1:04.0 | For me, I just was never that interested. |
| 1:05.0 | What she does do, though, is think a lot about gambling because Hannah is Dr. Hannah Pitt, a senior research fellow at |
| 1:12.0 | Deakin University whose work focuses on the impact of gambling advertising. And in one sense, |
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