The Australian National University study found that 13.6 per cent of Australian children were exposed to some level of at-risk parental gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Australia.-\u00a0Dr Aino Suomi, director of the Centre for Gambling Research at the Australian National University\u00a0has released a study about gambling behaviours that found almost\u00a0200,000 Australian children <\/strong>are exposed to moderate or serious levels of harmful gambling\u00a0by a parent each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the study, 10 per cent of Australian parents had engaged in some level of risky gambling in the past year. Suomi said that despite acknowledging the negative effects of gambling on children, there has been little research to quantify the magnitude of the problem in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nearly 60,000 children face the highest levels of parental gambling problems, which can lead to significant harm. At the other end of the scale,\u00a0nearly half a million children<\/strong>\u00a0were exposed to lower-risk parental gambling, the study found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Suomi stated: “Problem gambling is a significant public health concern on its own, but the experience of gambling-related harm reaches much wider. Parental gambling is also associated with child welfare concerns – things like neglect, poor nutrition and family violence.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n He added: “It’s clear we need to specifically consider and address child wellbeing in these families.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n In February, new research<\/a> from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)<\/a> found that more than one in 10<\/strong> (11 per cent) Australians reported participating in online gambling at some stage in the previous six months. That\u2019s an 8 per cent increase<\/strong> from 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ACMA aimed to study the impact of Covid-19 on online gambling habits and found that 16 per cent of Australians who gamble online reported an increase in their gambling frequency compared to before the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n GambleAware and The Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) have launched a new gambling harm support programme <\/strong>to help people dealing with gambling addiction issues. The campaign, funded by the New South Wales<\/strong> Office of Responsible Gambling<\/strong> will focus on culturally diverse communities, which it said were more likely to be affected by gambling harm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Graeme Loy<\/strong>, chief executive of WSLHD, told local media: \u201cWe\u2019re looking forward to working with all GambleAware Providers across NSW to build capacity to support multicultural communities and deliver culturally appropriate services.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n He added: \u201cOur goal is to ensure that anyone who needs help can speak to someone in the language they are most comfortable with, and who understands both their culture and community.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Australian National University study found that 13.6 per cent of Australian children were exposed to some level of at-risk parental gambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"New research from the Australian National University reveals that 13.6% of Australian children are exposed to at-risk parental gambling, with nearly 200,000 experiencing moderate to serious harm annually. Concurrently, online gambling participation in Australia has increased by 8% since 2020, prompting the launch of a new multicultural gambling harm support service in New South Wales.","focusai_entities":"Dr Aino Suomi, Australian National University, Centre for Gambling Research, Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), GambleAware, Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD), New South Wales Office of Responsible Gambling, Graeme Loy","focusai_location":"Australia, New South Wales, Western Sydney","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.7), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Policy Interventions for Child Welfare?","query":"What specific policy interventions are being considered by Australian regulators to address the quantified impact of parental gambling on child welfare, and how might these affect B2B\/B2C licensing frameworks?"},{"label":"Impact on Operator Compliance Costs?","query":"What are the projected financial implications for iGaming operators in Australia due to potential increases in responsible gambling levies or compliance costs stemming from these findings on societal harm?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,23876],"tags":[229,23911],"class_list":["post-28721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-social-news","tag-gambling","tag-gambling-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28721"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28728,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28721\/revisions\/28728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}NSW launches multicultural gambling harms service<\/h2>\n\n\n\n