{"id":609519,"date":"2026-04-17T04:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609519\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T04:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:44:09","slug":"albaneses-gambling-reform-is-social-ruin-as-public-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609519\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanese&#8217;s gambling reform is social ruin as public policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Angus Taylor is right about migrants \u2014 there are some things we never quite understand about Australia. I\u2019ve been here 14 years and I still don\u2019t get why gambling is not only legal, but legal in the way asbestos once was: sold to you by men in suits as though it were not poison, but the foundation of modern life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I first arrived, I was taken aback by how omnipresent it was. In other Western countries, it was something that took place in designated sin-zones, in special neon precincts where sad men in shorts go to negotiate with probability and lose custody of their dignity.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angus Taylor is right about migrants \u2014 there are some things we never quite understand about Australia. I\u2019ve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[60722,49,48,19215,123645,84,393,394,180944,118587,229756,6452,118588],"class_list":{"0":"post-609519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-anthony-albanese","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-gambling","12":"tag-gambling-advertising","13":"tag-health","14":"tag-mental-health","15":"tag-mentalhealth","16":"tag-murphy-report","17":"tag-peta-murphy","18":"tag-punched-in-the-headlines","19":"tag-sports-betting","20":"tag-sportsbet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609519","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=609519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}