Angela Rintoul

Australia’s gambling harm is likely underreported – and authorities are still failing to act New research shows Australian gambling harms, including suicide, may have been systematically under reported.

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Commercial entities are driving gambling harms, including suicide. Our new paper outlines how this operates & what can be done to protect the public and save lives: ‘Playing to extinction’: the commercial determinants of gambling suicide url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/VAASCANZ0o...

Gambling lobby’s sponsorship of Australian parliament’s sports club condemned by crossbench MPs Exclusive: Kate Chaney calls on PM to remove Responsible Wagering Australia’s membership, which allows sponsors to access ‘key opinion leaders’

“‘Let’s be real about it: if the access isn’t perceived to be valuable, why is it sold as a benefit of membership?” Williams said.” Indeed

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Is Sydney our money-laundering capital? AUSTRAC exposes the NSW entertainment-gambling industrial complex The money laundering regulator has targeted one of the biggest club chains in NSW for systemic breaches of money laundering laws involving poker machines.

Is Sydney our money-laundering capital? AUSTRAC exposes the NSW entertainment-gambling industrial complex www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/31/p...

Research Stream 6 at #NSPC25 today, listening to A/Prof Carla Meurk from QCMHR presenting a data-linkage study, sharing insights into the trajectory of distress among construction workers.

A great presentation at #NSPC25 from A/Prof @angerintoul.bsky.social from The University of Melbourne on gambling-related suicide, highlighting the powerful commercial determinants that fuel the link between gambling and suicide, and the importance of disrupting harmful practices.

This 6-point plan can ease Australia’s gambling problems – if our government has the guts The Albanese government now has the political capital to tackle Australia’s massive gambling problem – if it wants to.

Now the election is over let’s get on with urgent gambling reforms theconversation.com/this-6-point...

COVID-19 pandemic mortality data: report As of 2024, 20 more Australians are dying each day as a result of COVID-19. To understand this ongoing problem better, experts at Burnet have developed a comprehensive analysis of deaths caused by the...

Today @burnetinstitute.bsky.social launched a report on COVID's impact on mortality in Australia. Oz experienced a low toll in the first 2 years, but 30,000+ have died since - now plateauing at 7,000+ deaths/year. What does this mean & what can be done? Read on...

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Buyer’s Remorse, Betrayal, and Blame: Who Will Be Held Responsible for the Adverse Health Impacts of the US Elections? | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 3 American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)

Krieger “Our job in public health is to prevent scapegoating & to document & make vividly clear… the causal connections between economic & social inequity, illiberalism, & the people’s health…may the record be clear… many of us in public health fought back” ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....

Whose dollars are affecting policy? As the government pushes an electoral reform bill criticised for favouring the major parties, the latest figures show they jointly reaped almost $150 million in donations last year.

Whose dollars are affecting policy? www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Peter Dutton’s deliberate Australia Day cruelty It’s January in Australia and so the annual Australia Day political circus has rolled into town. It started much earlier this year, with Peter Dutton and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price working to grab some ...

Dutton’s deliberate Australia Day cruelty www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

‘Unwilling’ coroners failed us, say families of gambling addicts who took their own lives Bereaved relatives claim betting industry is not being held to account, report reveals

The coroners' system in England and Wales is outdated and has failed to properly investigate gambling-related suicides for many families. Reforms are desperately needed. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Opinion | As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles After the Bobcat fire, the area no longer felt safe.

“Nothing will change until our anger gets powerful enough. But once you accept the truth of loss, and the truth of who perpetrated and profited from that loss, the anger comes rushing in, as fierce as the Santa Ana winds.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

Dying to win: Canadian provinces are expanding legal gambling despite one death every nine days Investigation into gambling-related suicide data shows tracking of deaths lags while governments ignore risks to chase industry profits

Great piece by Rob Csernyik on the urgent need to improve systems to identify gambling-related suicides, to help prevent these deaths ricochet.media/justice/dyin... @gclongform.bsky.social