This strategy sets out New Zealand’s approach to funding and coordinating services to prevent and minimise gambling harm. It strengthens alignment with mental health priorities by providing additional funding to improve access to services and treatment, focus on prevention and early intervention, and enable more effective service support.

Australians start gambling in large numbers well before they are old enough to legally gamble. This paper reveals that Australian teenagers are more likely to gamble than to play any of the most popular sports in their age group. The paper shows the need for stronger regulations to reduce the harm caused by gambling.

A summary of results of a consumer survey with adults who regularly gamble on poker machines that assesses their risk of gambling-related harm. The research can inform policies that aim to reduce gambling harm by limiting time, spending and access to poker machines.

Gambling is a critical but ignored cost-of-living pressure for families. This report examines what has happened to expenditure on gambling during Australia’s cost-of-living crisis. It finds that gambling losses are a bigger drain on household budgets than the cost of electricity and gas. It calls for all 31 recommendations of the parliamentary report into online...

The Bill aims to reduce the negative impacts of electronic gaming machines (EGMs) through the introduction of mandatory pre-commitment and carded play, as well as slowing minimum spin rates to at least 3 seconds in order to address both player losses and potential money laundering activity. This brief details the events leading up to these...