{"id":900056,"date":"2026-04-17T06:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/900056\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T06:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:05:18","slug":"albaneses-gambling-reform-is-social-ruin-as-public-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/900056\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanese&#8217;s gambling reform is social ruin as public policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Angus Taylor is right about migrants \u2014 there are some things we never quite understand about Australia. I\u2019ve been here 14 years and I still don\u2019t get why gambling is not only legal, but legal in the way asbestos once was: sold to you by men in suits as though it were not poison, but the foundation of modern life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I first arrived, I was taken aback by how omnipresent it was. In other Western countries, it was something that took place in designated sin-zones, in special neon precincts where sad men in shorts go to negotiate with probability and lose custody of their dignity.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angus Taylor is right about migrants \u2014 there are some things we never quite understand about Australia. I\u2019ve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4317],"tags":[26257,6732,177760,105,218,215617,177758,253538,2027,176864,16,15],"class_list":["post-900056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-gambling","tag-gambling-advertising","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-murphy-report","tag-peta-murphy","tag-punched-in-the-headlines","tag-sports-betting","tag-sportsbet","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900056","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=900056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}