The Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) has released the latest findings from their landmark Ten to Men research series.

The report, Gambling participation and harm among Australian men, reveals how men gamble and the effects that gambling poses to men’s health and wellbeing,

This snapshot examines the link between playing video games during adolescence and gambling as a young adult.

It explores whether young people who played video games frequently or played certain types of games in their adolescent years started real money gambling when they reached the legal age for gambling in Australia (18 years).

This study sought to better understand the harm experienced by children that can be directly attributed to their parents’ gambling.

The study provides an overview of the available empirical literature on specific harms experienced by children exposed to parental gambling problems, and further builds on this literature, with an Australian national online survey and qualitative interviews with a subsample of who reported having experienced gambling harm due to their parent’s gambling as a child. 

The aim of this project was to improve understanding of the potential role of gambling help providers in identifying and responding to intimate partner violence encountered among clients using gambling help services.

The project comprised a qualitative study of gambling help service providers, involving n = 20 semi-structured interviews (with 15 women and 5 men) that were conducted via telephone between November 2020 and March 2021.

This study draws on the Northern Territory 2018 prevalence study to identify the harms that can arise as a result of gambling, both to the gambler themselves, their family and friends, and to the broader community.  

The study outlines current understandings around the types of harm that can arise and summarises the harms identified in the 2018 prevalence survey and the social costs those harms where possible.

A report on the development and analysis of a list of gambling-related harms data from the 2015 and 2018 NT Gambling Prevalence and Wellbeing Surveys.

Prevalence and incidence of gambling harms are presented for five domains: emotional/psychological, financial, relationship/family, work/study and criminal. 

This report presents an analysis of data related to online gambling from the 2015 and 2018 NT Gambling Prevalence and Wellbeing Surveys.

The relationship between the following are investigated:

• online gambling and gambling frequency;
• number of gambling activities;
• socio-demographic;
• socioeconomic and health risk factors;
• problem gambling risk; and
• harm from own gambling.

This report presents findings qualitative study that explored Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s gambling behaviour, associated harms, help-seeking for gambling issues, and their views about current legislation on gambling in the Northern Territory (NT).

The aim of this study was to generate an evidence base that could be used to inform targeted interventions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experiencing harms from gambling in the NT.

Australian governments, sports and law enforcement bodies have no role in the regulation of offshore wagering service providers (WSPs) offering betting contingencies on Australian sports to customers.

The research aim was to explore and better understand:

• the impact of the distribution of data on Australian sports or events offered by offshore wagering service providers (offshore WSPs) who are not licensed in Australia; 

• the impact this has on sport integrity and consumer protection outcomes in Australia. 

This report, the first research of its kind undertaken in Australia, contributes to the evidence base in relation to the issue of sports data creation and dissemination into foreign jurisdictions.

Key facts:

• in year to June 2022, overall participation in any gambling activity (in the last four weeks) remained statistically stable at 43% (compared to year to June 2021)
• in year to June 2022, the in-person gambling participation rate remained statistically stable at 25%, although significantly below the pre-pandemic level (compared to year to June 2021)
• the online gambling participation rate remained statistically stable at 26% (compared to year to June 2021)
• the overall headline problem gambling rate as measured by the short form PGSI is statistically stable at 0.2%. The moderate risk and low risk rates are also statistically stable at 1.0% and 1.5% respectively (compared to year to June 2021).