Australia has 21 per cent of the world's poker machines. Maggie Brady documents the first successful Aboriginal use of regulation in order to prevent the installation of pokies in South Australia in 1998, and discusses how the Productivity Commission inquiry into Australia's gambling industries dealt with Indigenous gambling.

The gambling industry is big business in Australia, with Australians losing $15 billion on gambling last year. The industry has grown substantially in the last twenty years following the widespread introduction and legalisation of casinos and gaming machines. The proportion of household disposable income directed towards gambling has escalated, as has the amount of taxation...

At present, adult Australians spend $13,839 million a year on gambling, or $901 per adult per year. However, with increasing opportunities and venues for gambling, public concern about 'problem gambling' has grown. This paper examines one of the principal social costs of gambling, namely, gambling related crime, or crime committed by individual gamblers in order...

IN 2001, poker machine losses in Victoria surged past the $2.3b mark, up almost 10% - or $141m - on the previous year. This growth occurred despite the industry introducing its own Responsible Code of Practice in 1997 and despite the Bracks Labor government introducing a range of new socially responsible gaming policies over the...