Please Gamble Irresponsibly: The rise, fall and rise of sports gambling in Australia Audiobook (Free)
- Titus O'reily
- 7 h 58 min
- Penguin Random House Australia Audio
- 2019-11-19
Summary:
Australians will gamble on anything, from two flies crawling up a wall to less important things like government elections.
Thanks to the web, cell phones and gaming tax loving Federal and State government authorities, Australians can indulge their love of a punt no real matter what they’re doing.
Aussies can be at the birth of a kid, performing open center medical operation or handling large machinery but still put a bet on.
As a result, Australia sits atop the world when it comes to gaming, losing more about Please make sure to Gamble Irresponsibly: The rise, fall and rise of sports activities gaming in Australia cash per capita than any other country, leaving the next biggest loser, Singapore, a distant second.
But it wasn’t usually this easy because once you could only gambling on sport in Australia illegally, which it turned out was also pretty easy.
During the last thirty years, gambling on sport has gradually, then swiftly become legalised in Australia, to the idea were nearly every ad on TV appears to be about sport betting.
This book traced the annals of gambling in Australia through the convict era, the rise of SP bookies and organise crime, the legalisation and commercialisation of the industry and the threat it now poses to the integrity of sport.
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