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Book The Impact of Gambling on Victorian Employment

Download or read book The Impact of Gambling on Victorian Employment written by National Institute Of Economic And Industry Research Staff and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reshaping Australia s Economy

Download or read book Reshaping Australia s Economy written by John Nieuwenhuysen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws together analysts to contribute to a major assessment and 'audit' of the Australian economy.

Book The Social Cost of Gambling to Victoria

Download or read book The Social Cost of Gambling to Victoria written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study assesses the social costs associated with gambling in Victoria in financial terms. After conducting a systematic and targeted review of prior attempts to quantify the cost of gambling, the study estimates the costs in 2014-15 terms, with reference to financial, emotional and psychological impacts on gamblers and their families; relationships and family; crime and the justice system; productivity loss and work impacts; and costs to the Victorian Government. Unlike many previous studies, this study also includes low-risk and moderate-risk gamblers, not just problem gamblers. The findings indicate that the major components of the cost of gambling are borne by gamblers themselves and those around them. Of the estimated $7 billion in costs, $2.2 billion concerns family and relationship problems, $1.6 billion concerns emotional and psychological issues, and $1.3 billion concerns financial losses.

Book Gambling as an Addictive Behaviour

Download or read book Gambling as an Addictive Behaviour written by Mark Dickerson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If thinking about addiction is going to change, the study of excessive gambling is likely to be one of the richest sources of new ideas' (Jim Orford). In this book, the authors present research into gambling, showing the psychological variables that govern the erosion or maintenance of self-control over gambling behaviour. These studies provide an empirical basis for a model of impaired control of gambling. Impaired control, in its broadest sense, is considered to be the defining psychological construct of all the addictive behaviours and occupies a central position in conceptualising the addictive aspects of gambling.

Book Gambling  Freedom and Democracy

Download or read book Gambling Freedom and Democracy written by Peter J. Adams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-12 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a consequence of the rapid proliferation of commercial gambling in Western-style democracies, governments and communities are encountering a complex array of economic, social and cultural harms associated with this expansion. This book focuses specifically on harms to democratic systems. It examines how people with key roles in democratic structures are vulnerable to subtle influence from the burgeoning profits of gambling. It focuses particularly on the Western-style democracies of North America, Europe and Australasia. It argues that governments have a duty of care to protect their own democratic processes from subtle degradations and that independence from the gambling industries needs to be proactively built into public sector structures and processes. It outlines how a public health approach, harm minimisation strategies and international conventions can provide the base for protecting the integrity of democratic systems.

Book Chopsticks and Gambling

    Book Details:
  • Author : Desmond Lam
  • Publisher : Transaction Publishers
  • Release : 2014-07-25
  • ISBN : 1412854415
  • Pages : 90 pages

Download or read book Chopsticks and Gambling written by Desmond Lam and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chinese are known throughout the world as avid gamblers with a long history of participation in games of chance. Historians have documented wagering on such games as far back as the early Chinese dynasties. Despite measures by ancient Chinese rulers to contain gambling, it proliferated, and Chinese games have evolved and multiplied since then. Desmond Lam provides a unique look into the little-known world of Chinese gambling from historical, cultural, psychological, and social perspectives. Chinese gamblers regularly patronize casinos in the United States, Canada, and Australia. The recent expansion of gambling in East Asia has attracted much global media attention. Macau, the only place in China where casino gambling is now legal, easily surpasses Las Vegas as the world’s largest casino gaming market. Each year, Chinese from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan account for almost 90 percent of visitors to Macau. The expansion of the Chinese gambling industry has brought about much harm to Chinese communities, despite all of the development it has also stimulated. This book is the first to examine the beliefs, motivations, attitudes, and behaviors of Chinese gamblers, and will be of interest to students of history and sociology, as well as those studying the history and culture of China.

Book The Impact of Gaming on Specific Cultural Groups

Download or read book The Impact of Gaming on Specific Cultural Groups written by Shane Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Gambling

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Gambling written by Leighton Vaughan Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is a definitive source of path-breaking research on the economics of gambling. It is divided into sections on casinos, sports betting, horserace betting, betting strategy motivation, behaviour and decision-making in betting markets prediction markets and political betting, and lotteries and gambling machines.

Book The Social Impact of Gambling in South Africa

Download or read book The Social Impact of Gambling in South Africa written by Stephen P. Rule and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the advent of the National Gambling Act (no 33 of 1996) the legislative environment with regards to gambling changed dramatically.

Book Gambling  Work and Leisure  Routledge Revivals

Download or read book Gambling Work and Leisure Routledge Revivals written by David Downes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the legalisation of off-course cash betting in 1960, and the rise of varying forms of gambling, the British have come to be known as a nation of gamblers. Until this study was published in 1976, barely any evidence existed against which to assess the claim that gambling had become a major social problem. The authors present data drawn from area surveys carried out in Swansea, Sheffield, Wanstead and Woodford, and explore how well previous sociological theories of gambling agree with their findings, particular in connection with certain aspects of work and leisure. Examining different forms of gambling, including betting, bingo and gaming machines, the chapters consider how gambling choices vary between different social groups, and how much time and money is spent on them. With the internet making it easier than ever before to place bets, this title is especially relevant, and provides a systematic basis for an explanation of gambling in relation to social structure.

Book The Social Impact of Gambling in Victorian Koorie Communities

Download or read book The Social Impact of Gambling in Victorian Koorie Communities written by Koolmatrie Janis and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Victorian Gambling Study

Download or read book The Victorian Gambling Study written by Rosa Billi and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents the final findings of the Victorian Gambling Study, a longitudinal analysis examining gambling behaviour and its impact on health. It was conducted in Victoria over a period of four years, from 2008 to 2012, with a baseline sample of 15,000 adults. The report summarises findings and learnings from all waves of the study, regarding gambling participation and prevalence, characteristics of at-risk and problem gamblers, health and wellbeing, and pathways and predictors of problem and high-risk gambling.

Book Equality of Treatment in Employment

Download or read book Equality of Treatment in Employment written by and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1990 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Setting Limits

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pekka Sulkunen
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 0198817320
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Setting Limits written by Pekka Sulkunen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commercial gambling is a recent historical phenomenon. It has developed into a profitable industry that supplies a range of recreational activities to its customers, and is a significant way of collecting money from players to distribute to companies, state budgets, and other beneficiaries. Many of these are civil society organizations, using the money for producing services in sports, culture, social work, and health care. However, gambling can also develop into pathological behaviour. Using a public interest framework, this book discusses the policies that will best serve the public good and minimize individual and collective harms. After describing the historical context of the gambling and the current global burden of the activity, available methods of regulating the industry are evaluated using the available scientific evidence. By analysing the effectiveness of gambling policies and their alignment with the public interest, the epidemiological obstacles to successful regulation are considered in detail. There is good evidence for the effectiveness of restrictions on availability and access, but preventing gambling-related harm is not possible without limiting the overall volume of the activity, and hence the profits for the gambling industry and governments. Taking an international approach, this book delivers a comprehensive review of the epidemiological evidence documenting the harmful effects of gambling on individuals, communities, and societies. Essential reading for policymakers, social and behavioural scientists in gambling research, and public health researchers, Setting Limits examines a global view of an emerging epidemic of gambling problems.

Book Land  Labour and Gold  Or  Two Years in Victoria

Download or read book Land Labour and Gold Or Two Years in Victoria written by William Howitt and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book BUCKLEY  BATMAN   MYNDIE  Echoes of the Victorian culture clash frontier

Download or read book BUCKLEY BATMAN MYNDIE Echoes of the Victorian culture clash frontier written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sounding 7 begins with Echo 107 titled CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN EYES ON THE OZ CULTURE-CLASH FRONTIER followed by echoes on BUCKLEY REVISITED, AFTER THE PROTECTORATE CRUMBLED and WHAT OF PROTECTOR ROBINSON? Echoes follow on salvaging tribal ways, the Merri Creek black orphanage, ‘going round the bend’ at the Asylum and Echo 114: THE CELESTIALS OF VICTORIA, being the resented Chinese gold miners. Exploring the contrasting fate of Batman, La Trobe and Derrimut, leads into echoes on fringe-dwelling, cultural resistance and Oz racism, in particular the mass psychology of racist ideology that culminated with World War 2. After the gold rush era, life and right behaviour at the Healesville Coranderrk mission station and re-thinking William Thomas the Aboriginal Guardian lead to the pleasant notion of civilizing British colonies through sport. The life and exploits of Tom Wills is celebrated in Echo 122: THE MAKING & BREAKING OF VICTORIA’S FIRST SPORTING HERO. Turning to political history, Oz class struggles – convicts, capitalism and nation-building asks the question with Echo 124: WHITHER MARXISM [?] and then BRITISH EMPIRE POLICY REFORMS IN THE 1840s to contain a Chartist-led revolution. Facets of Victorian ‘quality of life’ since the land grab are followed by echoes on the astrology of the 1802 Port Phillip Crown possession claim and an echo titled TOWARDS AN ASTROLOGY OF CIVILIZATION. The Sounding concludes with approaches to researching Aboriginal society, an undergraduate essay on the Dreamtime and finally with Echo 130: A RAINBOW SERPENT BRIDGE. Today in the 21s century, I wonder how differently Oz would have developed if the then ruling British government in Sydney and London had not used censorship to delay the gold rush for almost 40 years! Sounding 8 begins with Echo 131: HISTORY DISTORTION & CENSORSHIP and is backed up with a critique of Britannia’s pirate empire that together spawn two more echoes of doubtful but controversial polemics in 1421 – THE YEAR CHINA DISCOVERED THE WORLD suggesting they were here in Oz many centuries before Captain Cook. Echo 135: THE KADAITCHA SUNG MEETS THE DRUID INHERITANCE pits Palm Islander Sam Watson’s 1990s fiction The Kadaitcha Sung [the ‘clever’ occult Oz Dreamtime] in occult war with the equally ancient European / Celtic / Druid magic in the psyche of the Aryan ‘race’, so to speak. Going even further out on a limb, the focus shifts to recent light shed on ‘dark ages barbarians’ now considered by some historians to have been more culturally refined than the modern city individual. Back in Oz with Echo 137: WHITE MAN’S LAW – BLACKFELLOW LAW and Echo 138: McLEOD’S BUCKET FROM SKULL CREEK brings Western Australia after WW2 into wider awareness with the Pilbara pastoral workers strike of 1946-49 that won half-decent wage rights for Aboriginal stockmen. Moving further north, Echo 141: RECENT ARNHEMLAND CONNECTIONS Part 1: Taming the NT is the stuff of White Australia’s race-based patriotism as depicted in Ion Idriess’s once-mainstream fascist fictions counterpointed by Part 2: James Gaykamangus’s Striving to bridge the chasm: my cultural learning journey. The final echo 142 talks treaty.