You win some, you lose more

June 2023

© Commonwealth of Australia 2023
ISBN: 978-1-76092-518-5

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Foreword
Members
Abbreviations
Terms of reference
List of recommendations
Chapter 1 - Introduction
  • Content warning
  • Harm to individuals, families and communities
  • Overview of regulatory framework
  • Scope and conduct of the inquiry
Chapter 2 - A national strategy on online gambling harm reduction
  • Complex, fragmented and inconsistent regulatory framework
  • Reliance on individual responsibility
  • Calls for a public health approach
  • Inadequate public health messaging and education
  • Lack of independent research and transparent data
  • Disrupting illegal online gambling
  • Committee comment
Chapter 3 - Counselling and support services
  • Gambling disorder
  • Barriers to seeking help
  • The effectiveness of counselling and support services for people experiencing gambling harm
  • Committee comment
Chapter 4 - Regulating online gambling to reduce harm
  • Current regulation inadequate to reduce harm
  • Consumer protections
  • Enforcement and penalties
  • Complaints and disputes
  • Encouraging losses, banning those who win
  • Other issues
  • Committee comment
Chapter 5 - Gambling advertising
  • Community expectations
  • The normalisation of gambling through advertising and sport
  • Current regulatory framework for gambling advertising
  • Limitations of the existing regulatory framework
  • Concerns about further restrictions on gambling advertising
  • Committee comment
Chapter 6 - Simulated gambling and gambling-like activities
  • Potential for harm
  • Regulation of simulated gambling and gambling-like activities in interactive games
  • Committee comment
A. Submissions
B. Public hearings
C. Exhibits

Committee Secretariat contact:

Committee Secretary
House of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs
PO Box 6021
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600

Phone: +61 2 6277 2358
spla.reps@aph.gov.au

About this inquiry

The Committee adopted an inquiry into online gambling and its impacts on problem gamblers on 15 September 2022, following a referral from the Minister for Social Services, the Hon Amanda Rishworth MP.

On 12 October 2022, the Committee amended the inquiry title and terms of reference to ensure the language of the inquiry is inclusive to support people with lived experience of gambling harm to participate. The Minister supported these changes.



Past Public Hearings

05 Apr 2023: Canberra
04 Apr 2023: Canberra
28 Mar 2023: Canberra

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