Gambling addiction and pokies, and are we entering a new Cold War era? | The Context

Gambling addiction and pokies, and are we entering a new Cold War era? | The Context | ABC News

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Are we a nation of gamblers? John Barron speaks with Australia's top experts on poker machines, gambling and addiction. Plus, are we seeing the return of the Cold War - or something potentially more deadly? Watch more from #TheContext with John Barron: bit.ly/3zbe6oN
0:00 Introduction to The Context with John Barron
0:40 From two-up to the Melbourne Cup to the pokies - is Australia a nation of gamblers?
3:12 By the numbers: Madeline Morris looks at gambling statistics for Australians
5:23 An expert panel answers questions on gambling and addiction -Professor Sally Gainsbury, a leader in gambling psychology research; Dr Charles Livingstone, a member of the WHO’s Expert Group on Gambling and Gambling Disorder; and Dr Christopher Hunt, Senior Clinical Supervisor at the University of Sydney's GambleAware clinics
13:32 Now and Then: Should poker machines be abolished?
17:18 How the Cold War began - and are we slipping into another Cold War era?
22:38 Interview with Jim Townsend, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for New American Security’s Transatlantic Security Program
29:14 Coming up next week - marriage and divorce in Australia
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@Zei33 Жыл бұрын

Gambling is such a sad problem for Australia. My dad has had a gambling addiction for as long as I remember. He’s lost a lot of money on it. His drinking and gambling have caused us a lot of pain.

@tobychalmers8103 Жыл бұрын

As a rugby league fan, I have been saying for years that we will look at sports betting agencies sponsorship of the NRL with the same disdain as we do with Winfield sponsoring the NRL in the 80’s .

@PinataOblongata Жыл бұрын

A good number of people still smoke and cigs are still on the shelves. Why? Federal govt revenue. Even if they clean up the advertising, this issue will not go away, because there's even more money in it than coffin nails. Have a look at what is happening to Troy Stolz in Vic after trying to blow the whistle on money laundering via the casino/pokies - he now has cancer and they are literally trying to tie him up in court (and suffer the expense of that) until he dies. Govt should be protecting the people from corporations that do not act in their interests, yet all they ever do is accept large campaign donations from them in return for friendly legislation.

@jamesbthejoke5614 Жыл бұрын

Time to regulate it like cigarettes. Ban gambling advertising. Pokie machines must be olive drab, no graphics, no music/chimes. Machine becomes unusable for a period of 5 mins per 30mins of use. All pokie machines must be in a bright-lit room.

@peterp2626 Жыл бұрын

What a great show, thanks so much John.

@Christizm Жыл бұрын

I’m a gambling addict who is always broke I bet on sports I’m now closing all my accounts and focusing on 2023 try and make it a good year no point in crying about what I done jusr move forward I also play pokies and can tell you they are awful always lose if you play these

@cw4127 Жыл бұрын

How’s it going?

@helenacrossbow1412 Жыл бұрын

Self exclude

@Christizm Жыл бұрын

Getting better I stopped now and rebuilding slowly and self exluded myself

@leanmchungry4735 Жыл бұрын

It's not just a tax on the stupid, gamblers are addicts whose families suffer with them, governments know this and shouldn't be running their states on gambling taxes.

@markhogan77 Жыл бұрын

Great Show 👍 …Thank you John Barron

@alp3781 Жыл бұрын

The biggest mistake that was ever made in gambling was allowing people to do it via an APP by entering your CC and set up an account. This is only the beginning of the end for some people. Horrible idea.

@boyinglongboy569 Жыл бұрын

better than life insurance .if gambling your enjoying.if you buy life insurance your crazy . buying your own life plus yousing your own money

@alp3781 Жыл бұрын

@@boyinglongboy569 Haaaaaaaa ? 😂. Say what ???? Go and gamble. Have a good life.

@eternaldarkness3139 Жыл бұрын

If sirens went off every time people lost money on Slot Machines (Pokies)... You'd be too terrified to ever leave your cellars. No one is going alter the marketing of these machines for the good of the consumer.

@anonmouse15 Жыл бұрын

They'd be deaf after an hour.

@PinataOblongata Жыл бұрын

4:12 "But that includes people who don't lose anything because they don't gamble at all." Anyone with any knowledge of stats whatsoever will be annoyed by such a ridiculous statement/measure. If you want to know the average losses of gamblers, you do not, for some bizarre reason, include non-losses from non-gamblers. That would only be included if you were asking about losses for the entire population, which would be a stupid thing to measure when you can look at the proportion who gamble and then what gamblers lose.

@CaptainUrielVentris7 Жыл бұрын

The most insidious thing about pokies has to be their 85% or better payout rate, at first that seems good for punters, they can't lose too much too quickly, but it means people *feel* like they're winning while they allow themselves to be slowly drained of cash.

@Burgerklauer Жыл бұрын

85% is awful for a modern slot machine. Online you have a much better payout rate

@wademellor5304 Жыл бұрын

Or you have lost 15% before you have even started...

@cw4127 Жыл бұрын

Most machines are 97% rtp

@H3kler Жыл бұрын

Great show.

@TheBenderisback Жыл бұрын

I work in he Bar/Gaming attendant industry for 25 years + , In my experience You can't just pull all pokies from Australia, So much money for the government and a lot of people will lose there job's. there is a few way's it can be limited. 1.Wlimit 2. Is the government has to take over, Which is a loss of privacy, People that want to play the pokies have to apply like a passport, the government has to go thru all your in and out going money ( like a home loan ) and devise a credit card ( like the credit card doll payments ) with a amount which is deposable income and set up a credit card that can be used for buying acholic , cigarettes and Pokies (like a set amount weekly, fortnightly or monthly) the big down fall of all this Australia will be a nanny country, we can be monitored 24/7 ( now this will work but there is a lot that can go wrong and in my experience people will not stand for it )

@--Nath-- Жыл бұрын

There's stuff all jobs in this "industry" unless you count the organised crime that uses them for money laundering.

@PinataOblongata Жыл бұрын

You don't need an apostrophe to pluralise something. It's just jobs and ways, not job's and way's. You only use an apostrophe for ownership or contraction. Also, there shouldn't be any jobs in this industry, just like there shouldn't be any jobs in coal or gas or making cigarettes or any other obvious social ill that is continually allowed on bs "jobs" excuses. No one needs it, it's only bad for people, except a tiny few making mega profits of people's misery at the top. The idea the state needs the revenue and can't replace it with something else, such as adequate taxation of the rich and multi-nationals, is laughable.

@yuhboyify Жыл бұрын

You can just pull all the pokies. Money that was destined for the pokies would now go into the economy generating new jobs elsewhere. Less domestic violence, more productive society, harder to launder money. It's kinda like saying illicit drug use employees thousands of drug dealers. It's a crazy argument.

@emanym Жыл бұрын

I want the pokies limited to the casinos alone.

@Phlegethon Жыл бұрын

40% and 31% of men and women gamble?

@A2Z2REAL Жыл бұрын

Gambling is more volatile then any substance abuse when it comes to funds.

@A2Z2REAL Жыл бұрын

@Donnell Okafor Good luck shooting 5 k worth of H in your arm in a hr.

@theIdlecrane Жыл бұрын

I've been learning how to gamble for a number of years, it is an essential life skill because it is fundamentally to participate in an event over time with high degree of uncertainty and try to walk away with a positive pay off. So this applies to marriages, careers, and investment decision making. The first part of the answer is to have a stop loss. If you play you will lose, how much is up to the stop loss you set. It's a lot more complicated than that of course, but it's a good start

@resolecca Жыл бұрын

2:55 so he thinks the average married couples combined income is $3500 per week?? A fortnight yes but a week definitely not that $182,000 per year WTAF 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

@TaureanTrish Жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing when I read that too. WTF??

@Michelle_Emm Жыл бұрын

Before or after tax?

@resolecca Жыл бұрын

@@Michelle_Emm even before tax that's too much for the average worker

@Michelle_Emm Жыл бұрын

@@resolecca I would have thought that's pretty average for a couple but I checked and it is a bit above median income for a couple which is $136k. My three kids and spouse's make about $160-$170k and one of them combined income is over $200k.(miner) Seems an awful lot of money to someone like me who's combined income is less than $32k. But we live well on that.

@resolecca Жыл бұрын

@@Michelle_Emm i wouldn't consider $50k over the median "just a bit above" it basically a third persons wages, that being said i think even $136k at the median income is more than most couples would make assuming they both work full-time id say $110k is alot more realistic, of corse alot of people do infact earn $182k and above which is why the median income of $136k is often quite a bit higher than what most people earn at $110k

@soniaburlakov3255 Жыл бұрын

Ponies and gambling is getting worse, my mother and her friend just left this morning for the casino this morning, she has already gone through 2 million dollars from her inheratence

@stephen902 Жыл бұрын

Pokies means something way better in the USA

@VGScreens Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile they banned legal regulated online poker (actual poker) with the Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill. Upside-down gambling agendas supported by the Australian government and backed by the gambling/gaming/pokies industry. Of all forms of gambling, pokies have always been the worst, most depressing, and directly target "problem gamblers", this is hardly news.

@georgetrammell8541 Жыл бұрын

This information was available 12 years ago in America and before hand Cherokee Chief isn't MANKILLER AND 30 ACRES OF YELLOW CAKE URANIUM IS HER ONLY LAGIT LEGACY FOR CASINO GAMES THAT TAKE 80 TO 90..... DRUG LAUNDERING OR ENERGY MANIPULATION?

@helenacrossbow1412 Жыл бұрын

I don’t give a damn about the job losses- A they can find another and B not sure how great the job would be considering you would be witnessing pure misery everyday at work. Any form of gambling should only be allowed at casinos. A they are harder to get to whilst all clubs and pubs are specially located in sweet suburbia. I hope that anyone who profits on the misery of others (I do not agree with the notion of you’re an adult make better choices. Considering how they make the pokies, to get you as addicted as they can) that these sickos pay every bit of karma possible, might have to wait till death but it will come for them. Finally good luck to anyone suffering, please get help and self exclude.

@FalkinerTim Жыл бұрын

They do not misunderstand their chances of winning. The machines should be paying around $48K per day. $47K if you are unlucky.

@123blackaxe Жыл бұрын

Pokie machines are a joke, boring. I never found the appeal. You might as well substitute it for online gaming...you can definitely find your addiction here...and at least it won’t rob you bank account.

@123blackaxe Жыл бұрын

...once upon a time these venues all use to support live music. Now most of them have such a soulless, depressing feel.

@marionmunro9042 Жыл бұрын

They need to cap them at one dollar per spin would help a lot of people and can't lose so much so quickly unfortunately the the clubs lobby and the government wouldn't have a bar if it they would lose too much revenue greedy buggers

@DJCypha Жыл бұрын

I have a better idea just ban pokies in all pubs and hotels and just confine them to dedicated gambling spaces i.e. casinos . All these so called experts solutions like cashless, less jackpots are all a Band-Aid approach. Unfortunately they won’t because of the amount of tax revenue generated by state governments and the wealthy lobbyists pretending to try and reverse the problems they created in the first place.

@unclegaz Жыл бұрын

Bring back Planet America guys. The Murdochs are out of control. Not just Fox, right here in Aus with SKY.

@stevenherrold5955 Жыл бұрын

speaking of ONE ARM BANDITS' i heard a funny story about a sheriff confiscated slot machines with a law banning a steel trap for catching dumb animals i will buy a scratch off ticket once in a while but there's gotta be a limit you gotta pay your bills and meet your needs like food and clothing

@steft7903 Жыл бұрын

How's the Australian accent from the 50s?!

@genuinekunga Жыл бұрын

Someone with paralysis or a child with cerebral palsy before giving up on their health they should try kunga therapy a non medicinal massage therapy in Kigali/Rwanda🇷🇼🇷🇼 before anything else

@goodyear05 Жыл бұрын

So why are the pokies full of mostly women

@brinjoness3386 Жыл бұрын

I would guess men are more likely to bet on sports

@boyinglongboy569 Жыл бұрын

gambling better than buy Life Insurance .you buying you own Life use your own money.thats crazy.

@KirillySpace Жыл бұрын

Hmmm... I really enjoyed the show John Barron presented about the USA. It was playful, probing and insightful. This show seemed lame in comaprison, like surface level entertainment for what are really, topics of great import :/

@georgetrammell8541 Жыл бұрын

8s the place

@simonmccourt675 4 ай бұрын

Ban online gambling now..being blinded

@nb9008 Жыл бұрын

I used to work in a Casino and seen gaming all the time even in 3am in the morning on a weekday. Really?? Com'n people GET A LIFE!! Oh, and don't think your lucky rabbits foot or some some lucky charm will win you some money...The truth is all Pokies are just RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS, and nothing more.

@user-sp4gy7ko5l 5 ай бұрын

They are not really random. They operate off of code.

@stevenbakopoulos3365 11 ай бұрын

I’m hooked not good

@JimBob-px8po Жыл бұрын

Ok i am on my wau see him in. Ca gy

@arionel81 11 ай бұрын

Gambling is Australia cancer which needs to be cured

@redwolf7929 Жыл бұрын

This was purely propaganda.Its called context but there was no context given about Ukraine's situation ,the split between east and west of the country , or the political situation around the Maidan protests the ousted president etc.

@peternixon1460 Жыл бұрын

The former President was ousted because he was Putin's puppet and corrupt. Russian- funded separatists are an age-old game.