{"id":10154,"date":"2011-12-26T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=10154"},"modified":"2011-12-22T13:59:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T18:59:06","slug":"australia-worries-gambling-ads-hurting-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/12\/australia-worries-gambling-ads-hurting-kids","title":{"rendered":"Australia worries gambling hurting kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three fourths of all Australians have a problem with gambling. Although the country only has 22 million people &#8212; fewer than the entire state of Texas &#8212; Aussies spend nearly $12 billion a year on poker machines alone.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10295\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10295\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2011\/12\/compulsive_gambling.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10295\" title=\"compulsive_gambling\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2011\/12\/compulsive_gambling.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gambling machines are incredibly popular in Australia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Many Australians enjoy an occasional flutter,&#8221; says a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.problemgambling.gov.au\/initiatives\/\" target=\"_blank\">government website<\/a>. &#8220;However for some, gambling can be highly destructive \u2013 ruining lives and destroying families. 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Although the country only has 22 million people &#8212; fewer than the entire state of Texas &#8212; Aussies spend nearly $12 billion a year on poker machines alone. &#8220;Many Australians enjoy an occasional flutter,&#8221; says a government website. &#8220;However for some, gambling can be highly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[100,8],"tags":[1892],"class_list":["post-10154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-news","tag-australia-gambling-problems"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Australia worries gambling hurting kids<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/12\/australia-worries-gambling-ads-hurting-kids\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Australia worries gambling hurting kids\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Three fourths of all Australians have a problem with gambling. 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