{"id":938905,"date":"2026-10-24T05:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T05:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/938905\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T05:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T05:34:11","slug":"wa-has-less-gambling-harm-than-the-rest-of-australia-theres-one-simple-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/938905\/","title":{"rendered":"WA has less gambling harm than the rest of Australia. There\u2019s one simple\u00a0reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Western Australia is a unique part of Australia in many ways. It gets a special deal on the distribution of the <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/if-we-want-a-better-australia-we-need-to-raise-the-gst-and-cut-income-taxes-294156\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Goods and Services Tax<\/a> (GST). Its flora, fauna and cultural attributes are extraordinary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it has the lowest rate of gambling harm in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/16066359.2026.2733842\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently published research<\/a> on the gambling behaviour of Western Australians reinforces this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It demonstrates that although Western Australians gamble as much as anyone else in Australia, they experience far fewer gambling problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Western Australia is a unique part of Australia in many ways. It gets a special deal on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":938906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,21944,44,29880],"class_list":["post-938905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-gambling","tag-news","tag-pokies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}