Australians are continuing to gamble at a ‘new normal’ of elevated post-pandemic levels, researchers say
The Australian National University’s centre for gambling research found people have continued to gamble at elevated levels, after spiking post-pandemic.
The ANU research found a slight decrease in the number of participants in the 12 months since the poll was taken, dropping from 61.3% to 60.3%. Pre-Covid, gambling levels were sitting around 65.6%.But the number of people participating in gambling with risk increased from 11.6% last year to 13.6% in 2024, the research found.
“Online gambling has exponentially increased, and should now be considered one of the main gambling platforms,” Suomi said. The data was collected between April 2019 and January 2024. A separate report using the same data examined how gambling harm extended to others with about 1.2 million adults reporting being personally affected by someone else’s gambling in the last 12 months.
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