The study was conducted by The Australian National University (ANU).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Australia.- A study conducted by The Australian National University (ANU) has found an increase in risky online gambling in Australia. While the percentage of Australians engaged in gambling is similar to that of 12 months ago (60.3 compared to 61.3 per cent) the proportion of people gambling at risky levels has risen from 11.6 per cent to 13.6 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Participants were surveyed about their gambling habits over the past 12 months, as well as their overall well-being. The study found that Australian men, older age groups, and people with lower education levels had higher rates of gambling participation compared to younger age groups. In 2024, the most popular forms of gambling were lottery tickets (46.8 per cent of Australia’s adult population), followed by raffle or scratch tickets, poker machine gambling and race betting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lead author Dr Aino Suomi\u00a0<\/strong>said: “This means a larger proportion of individuals who gamble are experiencing harm. Our data also suggests a move away from venue-based gambling to activities that are readily available online, such as sports betting.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a separate report using the same survey data, the ANU noted that approximately 1.2 million adults, equating to 5.3 per cent of the adult population, reported being affected by another individual’s gambling in the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Suomi said: “Individuals who were affected by someone else\u2019s gambling tended to be younger (aged 18 to 24), earning a lower income, experiencing problems related to their own gambling, and dealing with loneliness or psychological distress. If we have more data on this group of \u201caffected others\u201d, we can help understand how to best support them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recent measures in Australia have included the launch of\u00a0BetStop<\/a>, the national self-exclusion register, mandatory ID pre-verification for new online wagering accounts and\u00a0a ban on credit card use for online wagering<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The study was conducted by The Australian National University (ANU).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":22964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Australian National University (ANU) reports a notable increase in risky online gambling in Australia, with the proportion of individuals exhibiting harmful play rising from 11.6% to 13.6%. This study indicates a pronounced shift from land-based to online wagering, particularly within sports betting verticals, and highlights that 5.3% of the adult population is adversely affected by another individual's gambling. These findings emerge amidst recent regulatory enhancements, including the launch of BetStop and the prohibition of credit card use for online wagering.","focusai_entities":"The Australian National University (ANU), Dr Aino Suomi, BetStop","focusai_location":"Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.7), product_ux (0.8), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Impact Assessment","query":"What specific data points from this ANU study will Australian regulators leverage to assess the efficacy of recent interventions like BetStop and the credit card ban, and what further policy adjustments might be considered?"},{"label":"Operator Risk Mitigation","query":"How are licensed iGaming operators in Australia adapting their responsible gambling frameworks, player identification protocols, and marketing strategies to mitigate the increased prevalence of risky online gambling and address the impact on \"affected others\"?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,153],"tags":[4138],"class_list":["post-777017633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-igaming-news","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017633","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=777017633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777017651,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017633\/revisions\/777017651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777017633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777017633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777017633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}