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Student No: 8103176813
Student Name: Ibrohim Soliev
Diploma of Business
BSBRES401A Analyse & present research information
FNGEN501B Produce research reports & make presentations
Teacher:
Brenda Christiansen - Mt Gravatt campus
Assessment task 1: Journal of readings
Selected topic: Gambling in Australia
Submission date: 3 March
Hypothesis Statement / research objective:
‘Has Gambling become part of Australian culture?’
Contents
6 Book 1
7 Book 2
8 Newspaper articles with known author 1
9 Newspaper articles with known author 2
10 Newspaper articles with unknown author 1
11 Newspaper articles with unknown author 2
15 Electronic database article 1
17 Electronic database article 2
19 Bibliography
Internet item 1
Overview of source
Title: Problem Gambling
Author/s: Australian Government
Country/state: Australia
Summary of the reading
Australian Government. (2014). Problem Gambling. Retrieved from http://www.problemgambling.gov.au/ at 3/23/2014
According to The Australian Government (2014 p1), there are some serious problems associated with gambling among the Australians. This is because most of the Australians get immersed in the occasional flutter. Unfortunately, for some Australians, gambling can turn to be very destructive. This is because it has not only ruined their lives but it has also destroyed their families, the biggest cause being pokies. Some people argue that once people get addicted into gambling, it is very difficult to get a way out of the trap. Despite the fact that some Australians could lose money in the gambling, they just keep going to the same gambling and lose more money.
Internet item 2
Overview of source
Title: Information on gambling
Author/s: International Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High-Risk Behaviours.
Country/state: Australia
Summary of the reading
International Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High-Risk Behaviours (2013) Information on gambling. Viewed 24/03/14 http://youthgambling.mcgill.ca/Gambling2/en/medias/informationgambling.php
According to International Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High-Risk Behaviours (2013), the problem of gambling is no longer a reserve for the adults. This is because the findings in this case reveal that the youths of the current generation have found gambling very attractive. This is according to the prevalence studies that were carried out in Australia, Europe, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. These studies revealed that there were increasing prevalence rates of today’s youth being involved in both illegal and legal forms of gambling. “For the past year, the percentage of adolescents who gambled for money was approximately 60%. Out of this, 4-6% is presently having a serious gambling problem while another 10-14% of adolescents risk developing a serious gambling problem” (International Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High-Risk Behaviours 2013 p.1). The main cause of this is that most parents view gambling as an innocuous habit having few negative consequences.
Book 1
Overview of source
Title: Global Gambling: Cultural Perspectives on Gambling Organizations
Author/s: Sytze F. Kingma
Country/state: US
Summary of the reading
According to Sytze F. Kingma, the licensing of poker machines in majority of Australian states was a product of the states that are in charge of regulating gambling. These states benefit directly from the high taxes they get from the gambling games. This has made “problem gambling” and important issue in debates that have been seen between the Australian states whose regulatory regimes are different from the states promoting gambling. Western Australia is the only state containing pokies within the casinos has used a number of strategies to promote gambling while Victoria and South Australia states have been trying to minimize problem gambling by banning smoking, and reducing the denomination of money that can be put into the poker machine.
Book 2
Overview of source
Title: Gambling Cultures: Studies in History and Interpretation
Author/s: Jan McMillen
Country/state: Routledge, 2005
Summary of the reading
The gambling policies in Australia have according to Jan McMillen, taken a given direction, revealing the interesting comparisons with the other nations’ gambling policies. Gambling has been legalized in few western countries. However, Australia has gone many steps ahead in the road of legalizing gambling. Unlike the United States and Britain, whose main fears regarding the legalization of gambling lie on the fear of threats or compromise to public order and individual excess, Australia has not had any severe restrictions on majority of the gambling forms. This has consequently led to the toleration of gambling in Australia as a natural propensity of workers as well as an instinct. Australia has a cultural attitude which regard gambling as a right of every citizen. This gambling in Australia also has a political dimension. Top government officials have been seen taking part in gambling.
Newspaper articles with known author 1
Overview of source
Title: Gambling on Matches Makes Tennis Tours Uneasy
Author/s: JOE DRAPE, NEW YORK TIMES
Country/state: Australia
Summary of the reading
Joe Drape, New York Times discusses the kind of situation evident in Melbourne, Australia. His discussion revolves around Nikolay Davydenko, a tennis player. This player has a record of winning fourteen straight matches, beating some of the best tennis players in the world. He has in fact won two matches against Roger Federer. Along with his brilliant success, the author gets a chance to slip in the idea of betting, which he argues that it has been accompanying every tennis match, causing the major tennis governing bodies to launch investigation into the same. The reason for this is that the betting patterns in Australia were permeating into tennis, weakening the integrity of the game. This scenario highlights the fact that gambling is becoming a culture in Australia.
Newspaper articles with known author 2
Overview of source
Title: A Nation of Losers? Australians are the World’s Biggest Gamblers
Author/s: Alix Werthauer
Country/state:Australia
Summary of the reading
Alix Werthauer states that gambling constitutes part of Australian culture. It entrenchment is demonstrated by the fact that:
It has been established that more than 80% of Australia’s adult population consists of gamblers. The money spend in gambling in Australia is also very large, reaching $ 17.52 each week. The expenditure on petrol is 10.99 dollars, while that of petrol is 15.27. The expenditure for clothes is 18.67 dollars, which is slightly higher (Werthauer, 2013 p.1)
The popularity of gambling has grown in such a manner that many Australian films feature gambling as part of the people’s everyday life. Australia is also said to have a high number of casinos as well as gambling places, apart from having the highest number of gamblers. According to projections, the number of gamblers is rising, so does the occurrence of gambling in pubs as well as other popular public places.
Newspaper articles with unknown author 1
Overview of source
Title: Gambling: Australians bet more and lose more than anyone else
Author/s:
Country/state: Australian Associated press
Summary of the reading
According to this article, Australians are big fans of a punt. The article argues that the findings from new research reveal that the Australians not only wager more but also lose more than does any other nation in the world. This report states that the gambling losses incurred in Australia makes up $1144 for each resident. The Australians are, in this article, regarded as the biggest punters in the world due to the fact that the country has most opportunity of frittering cash away. Gambling is in this case, being likened to the eucalyptus oil owed to its natural nature. The people in charge of regulating the spread of tennis argue that they have paved way for the gambling to proliferate to the extent that the country constitutes the highest number of gamblers in the world.
Newspaper articles with unknown author 2
Overview of source
Title: Australian Open: courtside betting charge for Briton 'grossly unfair'
Author/s: Press Association
Country/state: Australia, the Guardian
Summary of the reading
According to this article, the State of Victoria police considered courtside betting, which took place at the Australian Open held in Melbourne as illegal. This led to the arrest of a British man who was involved in the betting. The British man is said to have done this betting through the use of an electronic device that was fixed into his shorts. This conduct was said to be likely to corrupt the outcome of the betting. This kind of courtside betting is said to be illegal since it beats delays in TV coverage of up to ten seconds long. The company that sponsors the British man claimed that the act of arresting the man was illegal. The company expressed its joy because of the existence of the betting laws in the sport to ensure that there is integrity in the whole process. This further adds to the fact that betting or gambling is a culture that is very deep rooted in Australia, extending into sports.
Journal or magazine 1
Overview of source
Title: Gambling in Australian Indigenous Communities: The State of Play.
Author/s: McMillen, J., & Donnelly, K
Country/state: Australia
Summary of the reading
McMillen, J., & Donnelly, K. (2008). Gambling in Australian Indigenous Communities: the state of play. Australian Journal Of Social Issues (Australian Council Of Social Service), 43(3), 397-426.
McMillen & Donnelly (2008) argue that gambling has both negative and positive effects for the families and indigenous gamblers in Australia. Communities in traditional card games have found gambling having important social value. However the commercial gambling for instance through the use of TAB betting, casinos and gaming machines or pokies have been found to have a range of dire negative economic and social consequences for indigenous people. The indigenous people have not understood well the concepts of the contemporary gambling. This lack of understanding is said to affect the cultural effectiveness as well as cultural relevance of the service provision for indigenous communities, families and indigenous gamblers.
Journal or magazine 2
Overview of source
Title: Estimating the extent and degree of Gambling related problems in the Australian population: A national survey
Author/s: Dickerson, M.G., Baron, E., Hong, S. & Cottrell, D.
Country/state:
Summary of the reading
Dickerson, M.G., Baron, E., Hong, S. & Cottrell, D. (1996). Estimating the extent and degree of Gambling related problems in the Australian population: A national survey. Journal of Gambling Studies. Summer 1996, Volume 12, Issue 2, pp 161-178
Dickerson, M.G., Baron, E., Hong, S. & Cottrell, D used a stratified random doorknock technique to conduct this research. The research involved an interview, which was conducted on 2744 respondents drawn from 4 capital states in Australia. The structure of the interview was in such a way that 3 sections. The last two sections were administered to regular gamblers, who gambled once per week or more than once per week. These gamblers were 290 in total. The South Oaks Gambling Screen as well as psychological measures was completed by these gamblers. After interpreting the results conservatively, the problem gamblers were defined based on the range of interpersonal and personal gambling-related costs. Based on this, 1.16% (±0.34%) of the Australian population belonged to this category. In this case, it was approximated that the losses by problem players was accounting for about 1/4 of all gambling expenditures.
Electronic database article 1
Overview of source
Title: A Study on Problem and Pathological Gambling Among University Students in South Australia
Author/s: Mubarak, A. R., & Blanksby, P. P. (2013).
Country/state: South Australia, Australia
Mubarak, A. R., & Blanksby, P. P. (2013). A Study on Problem and Pathological Gambling Among University Students in South Australia. Journal Of Higher Education Policy & Management, 35(5), 471-482. doi:10.1080/1360080X.2013.775927
Summary of the reading
Mubarak, A. R., & Blanksby, P. P. (2013) conducted a cross-sectional research whose aims was to bring correlation between pathological and problem gambling among the students at University in South Australia. Mann-Whitney and Chi-square U- Tests as well as through the use of Exploratory Principal Component analysis were used in this study. From this analysis, the estimated prevalence rate was 8.6 % for problem gamblers and three point one percent for likely pathological gamblers, who constituted the University students. This showed that the overall prevalence rate of gambling in South Australia is higher among the university students than general adult population in Australia. According to the observation in the study, the rates of participation in gambling activities was higher for students in South Australia compared to the studies done outside Australia.
Electronic database article 2
Overview of source
Title: Gambling in Australia: Experiences, Problems, Research and Policy.
Author/s: Delfabbro, P., & King, D. (2012).
Country/state: Australia
Delfabbro, P., & King, D. (2012). Gambling in Australia: Experiences, Problems, Research and Policy. Addiction, 107(9), 1556-1561. doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012.03802.x
Summary of the reading
Delfabbro, P., & King, D aimed at providing an in-depth overview of the current status as well as development of the gambling in Australia. The authors achieved this by examining the current status as well as the history of gambling in Australia. They focused particularly on the high rates of gambling problems in developments and community in treatment and policy services. The outcomes of the paper show the contradictory role that the state governments as both the liberalization agents for gambling and providers of gambling treatment services. The results also reveal the way the addiction notion is conceptualized in both the TREATMENT SERVICES AND Australian research factoring in the public health and harm based approaches. In conclusion, these authors found out that Gambling in Australia offers a curious paradox. The policies in highly liberalized state governments facilitate the proliferation of high level gambling.
Bibliography
Australian Government, 2014, Problem Gambling, viewed 25/03/14 http://www.problemgambling.gov.au/
International Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High-risk Behaviours 2013, Information on gambling, International Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High-risk Behaviours, viewed 25/03/14 http://youthgambling.mcgill.ca/Gambling2/en/medias/informationgambling.php
Kingma, S. F., (2010). Global Gambling: Cultural Perspectives on Gambling Organizations. New York: Routledge.
McMillen, J. (1996). Gambling Cultures: Studies in History and Interpretation. New York: Taylor & Francis.
Werthauer, A. (2014). A Nation of Losers? Australians are the World’s Biggest Gamblers, Culture Exchange. Posted on March 5, 2014
DRAPE, J. (2010). Gambling on Matches Makes Tennis Tours Uneasy. New York Times. Published: January 25, 2010
McMillen, J., & Donnelly, K. (2008). Gambling in Australian Indigenous communities: the state of play. Australian Journal Of Social Issues (Australian Council Of Social Service), 43(3), 397-426.
Delfabbro, P., & King, D. (2012). Gambling in Australia: experiences, problems, research and policy. Addiction, 107(9), 1556-1561. doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.2012.03802.x
Dickerson, M.G., Baron, E., Hong, S. & Cottrell, D. (1996). Estimating the extent and degree of Gambling related problems in the Australian population: A national survey. Journal of Gambling Studies. Summer 1996, Volume 12, Issue 2, pp 161-178
Mubarak, A. R., & Blanksby, P. P. (2013). A study on problem and pathological gambling among university students in South Australia. Journal Of Higher Education Policy & Management, 35(5), 471-482. doi:10.1080/1360080X.2013.775927
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