Australia's Great Gambling Addiction

Australia is to gambling what the United States is to guns. Australian’s gamble away vastly more each year than anyone other nation on globe. It’s deeply embedded in the culture with many positives, but carries with it a dark underbelly.

Crispin explores the sordid world of Australian gambling – the money laundering, electronic gaming machines, and the rapid rise of sports betting. While gambling in Australia is here to stay, significant reform is needed – in same cases more liberalisation, and in others markedly greater regulation.