Gambling inducements are banned in many countries and a parliamentary committee has recommended Australia follow suit, but more than a year later nothing has happened.
No move to kerb 'predatory’ gambling inducements more than a year after federal government urged to ban them ‘without delay’The name of Australia's most popular gambling app — official betting partner of the AFL and NRL — has become synonymous with major sport on TV.
You Win Some, You Lose More, dubbed the Murphy report, was handed to the federal government in June last year. "And yet these companies are permitted to continue offering people these sorts of inducements, which can unfortunately sway people's better judgement and lure them back into something that they'd rather not be engaged with."
"Sportsbet has several safer gambling tools in place for customers, including Take A Break. While their account is on a break or deactivated, customers do not receive communications or promotions, and are unable to use our service," the spokesperson said. "We lose the most in gambling of any nation in the world — 40 per cent higher than the nation that comes second, Mr Costello said."Our kids are being mainstreamed into gambling and sport, normalised — expecting that gambling and sport, AFL and NRL, go together.Callum, now 28, admits it's "a tricky question" trying to work out how much he's lost.
"We've got a lot of insight from our participants that they're betting on the train, they're betting on the bus, they're betting at home, they're betting at the pub they're betting at work."Gambling first caught Callum's attention when he was about 10 years old — when he'd play versions of Texas Hold'em embedded inside video games.
Mr Costello says the more time passes, the more sceptical he becomes about the federal government enacting the Murphy report's major recommendations.He believes both the government and opposition are "terrified of taking on the TV broadcasters in an election year"."We are still hopeful they will do the right thing, but the longer it goes the more you lose hope that they will ban the ads.
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