The new poker machine reform will bring about a new limit to how problem gamblers will be spending their money and teaching them how to give up theirs destructive habits. Australia has introduced a new reform, which will push the betting limit to one dollar, which will make it harder for gamblers to lose massive amounts of money while using poker machines. This has caused a mass of positive feedback which talks about the benefits and how this will slowly lead to a time where all machines will be banned. But many people claim that in these types of situations the government should not interfere and should let the citizens make their own choices. And the huge corporations behind poker machines are in uproar over the loss of profit that they will …show more content…
The first text providing their side to the betting limit is Ron Tandberg with a political cartoon published in The Age on the 15th of October 2011. With this political cartoon Tandberg explores the true nature of the gamblers representatives, that the only aim that these people have is to take all the money they can and with the new limit they won't be able to fill that objective. In contrast to the other two texts, this one is the most forward with its objective, Tandberg makes it clear that he is fully for the new reform. With the aspects of his cartoon including the representation of the gambler representative, with his huge stomach, over exaggerated mouth and his angry eyebrows. This cartoon aims to shed negative light onto the representative and to explain to the reader that these people only care about their greed and not the well being of the people behind them on the poker machines. This text shows the gambling corporations in the most negative light and highlights the reason why these people have not accepted the new reform, because they are horrified at the notion that they won't be able to trick these people out of all their money, 'do you realise how long it would take for a person to lose their life savings?' They don't care for the people like they claim they only care for the change in their …show more content…
The second text provided is a newspaper article written by Jennifer Crawley in the Hobart mercury published on the 11 May 2012, concerning the dangers of poker machines and the addiction that plagues most gamblers. This article aims to push most of the blame onto the gamblers association behind poker machines, telling the story of an ex-gambler which has battled his addiction since he was 15 years old. This text a new approach to this new reform by pulling the real experiences for addicts into the argument, many focus on the profit and the changes the reform will take into action but Crawley zooms into the personal experience may go through while battling addiction. Crawley aims for her article to be objective like the other two provided but with her tone and space dedicated to the positives of the reform it is clear that Crawley supports and is an advocate for the new betting limit. She puts the gamblers in the position of the victim, constructing their persona that of a person who needs help to be lead out of the hole they have dug themselves in. She leads the blame of these peoples conditions to the corporations that control the poker machines, 'it was the mesmerising nature of the poker machines that made them intoxicating' she rights of the alluring nature of the machines that made them irresistible for gamblers. While Crawly does focus on the emotional strugle the gambling
In her first publication, “Against the Odds, and Against the Common Good”, Gloria Jiménez tries to convince the readers that the lottery business is urging people to gamble. The thesis is apparent in the first paragraph: “Still, when all is said and done about lotteries bringing a bit of excitement into the lives of many people and bringing a vast amount of money into the lives of a few, the states should not be in the business of urging people to gamble” (118). The author successfully presents valid arguments to support her opposition to state-run lotteries throughout the essay; whether the evidence will properly convince most readers the way she wants them to, is questionable. Although the valid arguments and evidence Jiménez provides is adequate for the essay, I believe only one argument really stands out to convince her readers the purpose of the essay.
Australia has the biggest gambling losses per capita of any country in the world and that burden will soon fall upon the future young Australians.
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Expanding gambling can increase gambling addiction. Compulsive gambling addiction is a social issue that is related to gambling. In the past, compulsive gambling was thought of as an issue or behavior for adults. However, “today’s youth are the first generation to grow up in a society where gambling is legal, easily accessible, and in most cases government supported” (Monaghan & Derevensky 537). Gambling is often advertised in the media as a quick and easy way to “get rich” and is rarely seen
Over the past couple decades, sports gambling has become a growing industry and a hotly debated topic. Sports gambling is the act of placing a monetary wager on a sporting event for a specific outcome to happen. Daniel P. Connaughton claims sports gambling has always been an attractive medium for betting because the outcome of the games is unknown and so many factors go into a sports game (436). But currently as it stands in the United States, people may only bet on sports in Nevada. Yet the industry continues to expand and according to Jeffrey Roske, “Americans wager over $500 billion per year on sports. Of this staggering total, only $2-$3 billion per year are gambled legally within the state of Nevada…” (463). Roske’s evidence brings up
Gambling has become quite popular all over the world, but it is not free of potential problems. According to the DSM-IV-TR, the lifetime prevalence rate of adult...
...way anyone can lose if they use their service. It can be argued that adolescents are not being forced to bet, they are simply given the choice. On the contrary adolescents see it everywhere it is unavoidable and they are being misled and tempted from a young age resulting in them believing they have a high chance of winning and becoming wealthy. Adolescents are too young and inexperienced to realise the harm of gambling in any form.
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The adrenaline-rushing feeling of gambling offers people the idea that opportunity lies within their hands. Unfortunately, there are far too many consequences to gambling to even begin to count. To win you must play, and to win big you must play big. As more gamblers can recall their losses rather than their winnings, gamblers are often dealt with poor hands and must play the risky game to stay alive. Even though gambling has so many faults, some still fall under its corruptions because of gambling’s deceiving fallacies.
Gambling affects an individual at personal level causing increased incidents of divorce, family violence, child neglect and at community level a problem gambler tend to resort to fraud, embezzlement or tax invasion. An action to fight unhealthy gambling practice at primary and secondary level will further help reduce the major burden of disease in Australia and improve the health of public.
Gambling involves taking a risk. It’s something that gets our adrenaline pumping. Believe it or not, money is one of the major things that makes the world go round and some of those believe that money does indeed buy happiness in our lives. We all have heard the stories of those who have won thousands to even millions of dollars just by gambling and we instantly think that could be us. If some random person can be that one in a million, surely I can be too, right? Even though gambling is a fun thing to do, it is important to be aware of the kinds of gamblers that exist in today’s society and realize that gambling should be played in moderation. For instance, some variations of players include: The Social Gambler, The Professional Gambler, and
As previously mentioned, the issue at the center of the controversy or debate is morality or ethics. Morality or ethics has been at the heart of controversies regarding gambling because some people consider it as unethical. The consideration of gambling as an immoral act is largely attributed to religious beliefs and stigma of obtaining money relatively for nothing. Moreover, the ethical dilemmas and concerns associated with gambling is brought by the emergence of problem gamblers who account for nearly 2.1 percent of total number of gamblers (Kannon, 2012). Therefore, ethical concerns and dilemmas in gambling are fueled by the inherently sinful attitude about the activities, which generate a classical ethical problem from an individual level
I think that if the three solutions I provided are carried out, it will make a great impact on the rising gambling addiction rate. Spending extra revenue from states that have legalized gambling to fund enough addiction clinics and programs to meet each state’s need is the first step toward decreasing addiction rates. The second step is voting to pass more ordinance and restriction laws so the gambling industry will not expand out of control and children will not have easy access to gambling machines. I think if “we” as a community work together toward getting our state government to adopt the ideas in the solutions I provided, we can set an example for other communities and in the future lower addiction rates instead of quietly allowing them to increase.
...bling, they are all are ok in limit until they are reached to the level of addiction. By supporting the casinos and state lotteries, I don’t believe the government is supporting pathological gambling, but instead they are supporting the entertainment that people have the choice to experience. The government provides enough services to people so that they don’t reach that pathological stage of gaming or at least provides enough support to help get out of that horrid stage.
Either of these Acts would greatly help the problems of online gambling. There are a number of reasons why this booming industry should provoke more concern among policy makers.