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Australian bookmakers are disregarding the gambling laws of New South Wales (NSW) by promoting various enticements, such as free betting credits to their customers, new reports claim. So far in 2021, the state’s gambling regulator has started legal action against 14 different sports betting operators for illegally advertising their services. Last week, the latest operator that was found to be breaching the NSW advertising rules, SportsBet, was taken to the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney and faced charges of five instances of publishing unlawful advertisements on the Internet and…

A new piece of legislation that has been presented to the state’s upper house has been literally written by the gambling industry, an independent Member of Parliament has warned, highlighting the complex relationship between politics and gambling in Tasmania. After becoming the first state to open a casino in Australia back in 1973, Tasmania has also become a place where the influence of the gambling industry’s lobby on politics is has been demonstrated without any remorse. These links have now been highlighted even more thanks to a bill that is…

According to research that fuelled warnings about children’s exposures to promotions of online casinos, sports betting and National Lottery services, gambling operators in the UK are among the companies that are advertising the most on radio channels. Recent data that was compiled by the market analysis firm Nielsen for the Guardian has shown that gambling ranked second in a list of industries that spend the largest amount on radio commercials in the period from 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM and from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM. According to the results…

A respected, talented and hard-working GP, who misappropriated over £1.1 million in a period of 6 weeks to fuel his online gambling addiction has faced an imprisonment sentence of three years and four months. Rumi Chhapia, an experienced doctor, stole the money from Portsmouth Primary Care Alliance Limited (PPCA), a healthcare group and collection of GP practices that he established in the region of Hampshire city. The money was embezzled by the GP through a total of 65 transactions over 41 days in 2020 and was used by Mr Chhapia…

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) has revealed it will investigate how seven clubs from the English Premier League (EPL) and the Championship featured direct links to online gambling platforms from children’s pages on their websites. As BBC Sport revealed, the media hub got in contact with the EPL clubs Arsenal, West Ham, Tottenham and Aston Villa, as well as with the Championship clubs Reading, Millwall and Queens Park Rangers, to inform them of the links that violate the gambling regulator’s rules. Some of the clubs reached by BBC Sport apologised…

The Australian Greens Party has unveiled a transition plan aimed at the closure of commercial horse racing in the country. At the time when the announcement was made, Green Senator Mehreen Faruqi described the sport as inhumane, deadly and incompatible with animal welfare. The transition plan that has been announced by the Greens consists of two steps. It involves the implementation of a horse betting levy aimed at funding the cessation of the commercial horse racing industry in Australia and the establishment of a Horse Racing Transition Taskforce. On its…

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) published its interim evaluation of the successful implementation of the credit card ban in the country. According to the gambling regulatory body, the suspension of credit card use for gambling transactions is popular among local customers, and no unintended harmful effects associated with its implementation have been registered so far. In April 2020, the UK Government officially banned credit cards from being used for gambling transactions as part of its measures to protect local consumers from gambling-related harm by stripping them of the chance to…

New research held by the UK price comparison platform NerdWallet has shown that British residents are currently gambling more than they used to before the coronavirus pandemic. A survey into Brits’ spending on gambling services was conducted by NerdWallet for the Safer Gambling Awareness Week in 2021 that is being held from November 1st to November 7th in the country. The research found that almost two-fifths of frequent gamblers (or, in other words, people who were engaged in gambling activities no less than once a month) have spent more on…

The chief executive officer of the Betting and Gaming Council (BGC), Michael Dugher, has explained that keeping gambling safe has been the top priority of the UK gambling industry. The statement was made by Mr Dugher at the start of the Safer Gambling Week. The Safer Gambling Week is an annual campaign that has been organised in the UK since 2017. It has been supported by the British Amusement Catering Trade Association (BACTA), the Bingo Association, as well as by the Betting and Gaming Council. This year, the Safer Gambling…

Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey has introduced some new measures through the Assembly. In her opinion, they will help the local authorities make gambling safer in Northern Ireland. Minister Hargey took part in the Safer Gambling Week, an initiative led by the gambling industry and aimed at raising people’s awareness of gambling, and more specifically, of safer gambling. Speaking at the official start of the initiative, Ms Hargey has shared that she was bringing a piece of legislation through the Assembly. As she explained, the proposed bill contains a number of…