Young people exposed to gambling when watching sportĪdvertisements for gambling and online betting are particularly common in Australian sport. Up to one in five bet on sports matches and one in ten gamble online. If this continues, online gambling may soon replace traditional, in-venue gambling, particularly for young people.Ībout one young person in every 25 has a problem with gambling, which is an average of one in every high school classroom. While rates of online gambling for Australians are low compared to traditional forms of gambling, participation in online gambling appears to be increasing rapidly. In about the past 15 years, there’s been a rise in online gambling.
Education, not restriction, is key to reducing harm from offshore gambling
