Commissioned by the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation, this paper aims to identify recent research relating to addressing gambling harms to affected others. 

Specifically, the scoping review examines the following elements relating to affected others:

• prevalence
• socio-demographic characteristics
• an assessment of their status
• harms experienced, and
• the coping strategies and interventions employed.

Prepared for the Tasmanian Liquor and Gambling Commission, this paper investigates how facial recognition technology and player card gaming (including cashless gaming, pre-commitment and player tracking functionality) could minimise gambling harm.

The paper details the use of these measures in national and international gaming environments, including the options, costs, benefits and/or issues of implementing them in casinos, hotels and clubs. 

The investigation is designed to inform the initial feasibility assessment phase of the Tasmanian Government's future gaming market reforms.

Commissioned by GambleAware (UK), this report presents results of a survey conducted in November 2021 on the usage and demand for treatment and support services for gamblers in Great Britain.  

The study includes key data relating to participation and prevalence rates in the UK.

This release contains data and consumer views on why people gamble – their motivations for gambling, how and where they gamble, and how they want operators to interact with them.

The report consists of 3 parts:

1. Understanding why people gamble and typologies,
2. Typologies: hot-cold states, binges, and
3. Typologies: activities and location.

A summary of the report can be found here.

In June 2021 the UK Gambling Commission posed questions to gamblers to learn more about the prevalence and impact of free bets and bonus offers ('incentives'). The questions asked gamblers to recall the types of incentives received, as well as the frequency and volume with which they were received. In addition, those who had received incentives were asked about the impact of receiving incentives on their gambling behaviour.

This report examines the prevalence and nature of online gambling in Australia, and how this has changed in recent years. It draws on the findings of the ACMA’s annual consumer survey, the latest of which was undertaken in June 2021 – when most of Australia was free of COVID-19 restrictions, following the lockdowns of 2020. The research provides a snapshot of online wagering in Australia at this time and how this has changed from pre-COVID years.

This study investigated the nature, extent and outcomes of gambling-related problems in NonEnglish Speaking Background (NESB) communities in the Northern Territory. It discusses the most harmful forms of gambling, development and impacts of gambling-related problems; barriers to help seeking and preferred forms of help; reasons for not gambling amongst NESB community members; and opportunities for the Northern Territory Government to prevent future harms from gambling in NESB communities. 

The Racing Australia Fact Book 2021 outlines key results and statistics from the Australian racing sector for the season ending 31 July 2021.

The Fact Book includes data on thoroughbred and harness racing.

This study was conducted by CQUniversity’s Experimental Gambling Research Laboratory (EGRL) to inform the National Consumer Protection Framework.  The research focussed on how to increase consumer uptake of deposit limit setting in the online wagering environment.

Specific objectives of the research were to:

• examine how regular bettors are using pre-commitment limits;
• determine the optimal message features that promote the uptake of deposit limits (including for different customer groups);
• test the effects of these optimal messages on attitudes, intentions, take-up and review of deposit limits; and
• examine if setting limits impacts gambling behaviour and related harm.

Whilst this research failed to reveal reliable differences amongst message conditions on key outcome variables, such as expenditures, time spent gambling, urges, and gambling-related cognitions, the authors nevertheless found correlational evidence to suggest that self-reflection on gambling expenditure is likely related to an overall pattern of improvement for most bettors. 

There is evidence that gambling messages that focus on keeping track of expenditures (e.g. only bet what you can afford) and the positive benefits of spending less (e.g. think of all the money you’ll save if you gamble less) were some of the highest rated messages in terms of perceived helpfulness and ease of understanding.