Australia - gambling capital of the world - considers advert ban

Advocates are calling for a total ban on betting ads to avoid "grooming" children to gamble.

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“Our friends, our family would ask ‘Oh who are you betting on this week?’ That was the normal conversation that occurred,” his sister Amy - who is not using her real name - says.

Looking back, she blames that normalisation of gambling - the way it crept into their home and baked itself into social interactions - for her brother’s addiction, and for the suffering he endured before taking his life.

“It just destroyed him physically and emotionally,” she explains. “We tried everything. We were a close family, but we obviously didn’t know how bad it was - it crushed him.”

Amy is one of dozens who came forward to testify in a bipartisan parliamentary inquiry into the impacts of gambling in Australia - which wagers more per capita than any other country.

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