Online gambling
Crackdown on pokie website awash with ‘tens of millions of dollars’
The media regulator has banned an online gambling site that attracted 30,000 Australian monthly users.
- by Angus Dalton
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Opinion
Lachlan Murdoch
Lachlan Murdoch’s $220m bet on digital bookmaking falls flat
It is hard to know whether this deal’s failed consummation came down to price or lack of appeal. There is even a question mark over who was doing the stalking.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Fight over Victoria’s gambling tax as TAB wants online bookies hit harder
Tabcorp wants the Victorian government to boost the tax on gambling losses to overseas bookmakers, saying it will “level the playing field”, and anti-gambling advocates agree.
- by Annika Smethurst
Bad bet: Gambling lobby donated $11,000 to Labor before Qld tax hit
A lobby group for online gambling companies took a punt on Labor only days before the Palaszczuk government announced the industry would be taxed more.
- by Sean Parnell
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Gambling
Revealed: Risky parental gambling affects 200,000 Australian kids
The study by researchers at the Australian National University found nearly 60,000 children under 15 are exposed to the most severe level of parental gambling.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Russia-Ukraine war
Australian casino donates to Ukraine but questions remain over Russian gamblers
While gambling operations around the world have moved to shut out Russian punters, Stake.com can still be readily accessed in Russia.
- by Sarah Danckert
Investigation
Sports betting
The AFL’s ‘engine’: How gambling money underpins footy
One of the key figures in sports gambling in Australia has opened up about the millions flowing to footy from the gambling companies. It comes in ways that might surprise you.
- by Sam McClure
Aristocrat commits to online casinos after $4b deal collapses
Australian poker machine giant Aristocrat Leisure’s takeover of online gambling software outfit Playtech has collapsed, after the British company’s shareholders rejected its $4 billion offer.
- by Patrick Hatch
Kings, Flames turn backs on riches of sports betting
Sports-betting sponsorships and advertising have become ubiquitous in Australia, but two Sydney basketball teams have chosen to make a stand.
- by Adrian Proszenko
Record $2.3b runs through WA TAB operator as spend on problem gambling drops
COVID-19 restrictions spurred a record $2.3 billion of cash to run through the hands of Western Australia’s state-owned racing authority in the past financial year.
- by Peter de Kruijff
Nationals turn on foreign-owned corporate bookmakers
Nationals MP Ken O’Dowd has demanded corporate bookmakers’ lobbyists be placed on the foreign influence register as profits end up in foreign tax havens.
- by Rob Harris