I agree to an extent.

My opinion is we need a bit of a brute force approach to help correct how far off course compared to the rest of the world we are.

Ban advertising.

Tax the venues with pokies - rla revenue profit model that makes having them in clubs / pubs net negative to anyone running a venue.

Tax online gambling, ban their advertising.

Block non conforming online gambling sites.

Etc.

We are over 5 times the per capita spend of second place on gambling spend globally. Until we aren’t first things need to drastically change.

Yeah it’s a small sub set of the total - only a specific engine combination made between x and y dates.

Gambling in general, not just pokies.

Primer also falls into this category.

I sound like a parrot repeating this.

But

The graph of gambling spend per capita is a nice straight line. From the minnows, all the way to 2nd place, it’s straight and direct. Small increments for each country.

USA is second, average spend of $400 per capita. That’s pokies, horses, gambling, Vegas etc.

1st place is Aus. $2400 per capita. 5 times second place.

Aus needs to drastically change our gambling rules and regs. Ban advertising on all media forms including Internet. Block international gambling sites that don’t comply. Don’t associate odds with sports in any way. Pokies in pubs can fuck right off too. Tax that to the point where they serve no purpose to have on site.

Second the pi with Kodi.

Been using this for years now. Works really well.