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By sharing information and talking openly about this issue, you can help to reduce the stigma around gambling harm and seeking support.
Each week in September we will focus on a different aspect of gambling and its harms. We’ll be providing clear information, holding special events, and promoting the free support services available to Tasmanians.
This week the focus is on raising awareness of the harm that gambling has on individuals, their friends and family, and the wider Tasmanian community.
We share local information about gambling harms, with Tasmanian content from our Social Action and Research Centre report ‘What’s the Real Cost?’
This week we acknowledge the impact of gambling on the family and friends of people experiencing a gambling addiction.
We explore the far-reaching and intergenerational impacts of gambling on the community and share more details from the Social Action and Research Centre report ‘What’s the Real Cost?’.
During this week we are holding Support the Supporter events in both the north and south of the State. These events feature the voices of people with lived experience from the Three Sides of the Coin Project.
Anglicare Tasmania provides important supports for family and friends. Join us in raising community awareness of this free service.
This week we focus on the significant impact of poker machines to the Tasmanian community – and highlight ways to reduce this harm.
Anglicare Tasmania has welcomed the announcement by the Tasmanian Government that our State will move to cashless gaming with mandatory pre-commitment by December 2024.
On Friday 22nd September we release a new report about the benefits we can expect from this cashless gaming system, ‘The poker machine card. Simple as.’ Report.
This week we focus on the rapidly growing problem of online sports betting, the fastest growing gambling segment in Australia.
We share some alarming facts about the impact of sports betting and explain who is being targeted by on-line gambling providers.
On Wednesday 27th September we are hosting a free webinar with Lauren Levin, who will share her learnings from her Churchill Fellowship studying Gambling regulation in Europe.
We highlight the new national BETSTOP exclusion program and launch a new initiative to reduce harm at the grass-roots level called Get into the Game.
Gamblers Help is funded by the Tasmanian Government through the Department of Premier and Cabinet. Visit the Department of Premier and Cabinet for more information.
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