{"id":254879,"date":"2025-11-01T16:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/254879\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T16:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:12:12","slug":"how-australias-politicians-got-hooked-on-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/254879\/","title":{"rendered":"How Australia\u2019s politicians got hooked on gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aussies love to gamble, whether it\u2019s on the horses, down the pokies, at a fancy casino, or, increasingly, betting on their favourite sports team from the ease of our mobile phones. We love gambling so much we lose around $32 billion every year \u2013 more than any other country in the world. There\u2019s long been support for putting the brakes on, but it seems our politicians are more addicted to the money than we are.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aussies love to gamble, whether it\u2019s on the horses, down the pokies, at a fancy casino, or, increasingly,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[118586,49,48,74557,19215,84,118584,393,394,83562,118587,118583,118585,118588],"class_list":{"0":"post-254879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-andrew-wilkie","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-casinos","12":"tag-gambling","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-labor-party","15":"tag-mental-health","16":"tag-mentalhealth","17":"tag-online-advertising","18":"tag-peta-murphy","19":"tag-pokies","20":"tag-quentin-beresford","21":"tag-sportsbet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}