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I didn't write the article.
TBf our sport has an insidious relationship with gambling, from jnr funding to massive revenue generation to appointing a bloke as chair whose day job is all about gambling.
Thatd be like saying taking heroin is just entertaining and its only some that have problems. Reality is its a massive problem for a massive amount of people in this country. Its a horrible industry that offers little and takes a lot. Some will always want to gamble, a fool and his money and all that, but like weve seen in smoking making it as socially unacceptable and costly as possible will reduce its normalisation and ergo the number of people pssing their money away they can ill afford.
The analysis found that 7.9 per cent of Australians had experienced one or more gambling-related problems in 2015, including 1 per cent or 193,000 people who could be classified as problem gamblers – the most severe category.
It's not like we dont have a ton of data and research on this.
www.aihw.gov.au
It's not like we dont have a ton of data and research on this.
Gambling-related harm is commonly assessed via the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI). The PGSI provides a measure of at-risk gambling behaviour during the previous 12-month period.
It consists of 9 items (questions), such as ‘have you bet more than you could really afford to lose?’, with response options being never (0), sometimes (1), most of the time (2) and almost always (3).
Scores are summed for a total between 0 and 27.
Respondents are grouped into 4 categories based on their scores:
- non-‘problem’/non-risk gambling (0)
- low-risk gambling (1–2)
- moderate-risk gambling (3–7)
- ‘problem’/high-risk gambling (8–27).
- Respondents scoring 1+ may be classified as being at some risk of, or already experiencing, gambling-related harm (Ferris and Wynne 2001).
Research conducted in 2022 found that almost half (46%) of Australians aged 18 and over who gambled would be classified as being at-risk of, or already experiencing, gambling harm (low, moderate, or high-risk PGSI categories combined).
Differences were observed by gender and age group, with a greater proportion of men who gambled being classified as at-risk of harm (53% for men and 38% for women). At-risk gambling was highest in 18–34-year-olds among both men (71%) and women (56%) (AGRC 2023; Figure 7).
More than 2 in 5 men (44% or an estimated 2.8 million Australian men aged 18 and over) reported having gambled in the past 12 months. Most men who gambled spent money on multiple activities, including:
- horse racing (56%)
- poker machines (54%)
- sports betting (46%) (Tajin et al. 2022).
Gambling in Australia
This topic summary@aims to:improve understanding of gambling participation and expenditure in Australiadescribe gambling-related impacts on health and wellbeinghighlight emerging gambling trends...
you asked what considers problem gambling.
eh? That paragraph is from a research document done by the Australian Gambling Research Centre (AGRC), part of the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
The analysis found that 7.9 per cent of Australians had experienced one or more gambling-related problems in 2015, including 1 per cent or 193,000 people who could be classified as problem gamblers – the most severe category. Rates of problems were much higher amongst regular gamblers.
depends if spending $1272 puts you in financial stress, and thats an avg. I suspect the people with the problem are the ones well above that avg whilst others are spending much less.
other forms of entertainment dont create an addiction that puts a significant amount of people into problematic situations. There's a reason the gambling industry sucks $25billion out of people a year, not because its great fun, but because its addictive to some and those some spend amounts they cant afford on it.
