{"id":74478,"date":"2025-05-04T18:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T18:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/74478\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T18:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T18:22:10","slug":"ads-sports-and-games-how-gambling-infiltrated-australian-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/74478\/","title":{"rendered":"Ads, sports and games: how gambling infiltrated Australian culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re watching sport or browsing social media, odds are you will come across gambling ads. If you work in an office, you might&#8217;ve joined Melbourne Cup or footy tipping comps.<\/p>\n<p>In Australia, it can feel like gambling is everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we look at how everything from video games to shopping sites seem to be priming us for betting-like behaviours, and how the ubiquity of gambling ads is influencing young people in particular.<\/p>\n<p>And if you haven&#8217;t already, please take a moment to fill out our <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/listen\/programs\/allinthemind\/audience-survey-feedback\/105151860\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">listener survey<\/a>! It&#8217;s only 7 questions and we&#8217;d love ot hear your thoughts on the show.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr Hannah Pitt<br \/>VicHealth Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Health Transformation\u00a0<br \/>Deakin University<\/p>\n<p>Dr Anastasia Hronis<br \/>Clinical psychologist<br \/>Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney<\/p>\n<p>Nic Bloom<br \/>Mental health first aid trainer<br \/>Wellbeing facilitator and speaker<\/p>\n<p><strong>Credits:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ContentAlignment_marginBottom__4H_6E ContentAlignment_overflowVisible__N2zKU List_unordered__yNZx8\" data-component=\"List\" role=\"list\">\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">Presenter\/producer: Sana Qadar<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">Senior producer: James Bullen<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">Producer: Rose Kerr<\/li>\n<li class=\"\" data-component=\"ListItem\">Sound engineer: Ann-Marie de Bettencor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Extra information:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;re watching sport or browsing social media, odds are you will come across gambling ads. If you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[9776,36837,105,218,36836,2027,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-74478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-addiction","9":"tag-gambling-apps","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-poker-machines","13":"tag-sports-betting","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114450959193244139","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}