At some point, Australia must accept that it is time to break the chokehold commercial gambling has on this country.
- Lecturer, Health Promotion, Curtin University
Gambling operators are required by law to donate some of their revenue for charitable purposes. But a review of data in Victoria shows that charitable giving is actually far less than they claim.
Some clubs provide genuine benefits to their communities. Unfortunately, clubs have developed significant poker machine dependency – an average of about 60% of total revenue.
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