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Governments have a financial vested interest not to reform gambling laws. Here’s why

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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (82nd percentile)

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Title
Governments have a financial vested interest not to reform gambling laws. Here’s why
Published by
The Conversation, July 2026
DOI 10.64628/aa.evedfg9gk
Authors

Barbara Kinder, Michael B. Charles

Abstract

Australian state governments have spent years making up funding shortfalls by bringing in billions in gambling revenue.

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 84. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 August 2026.
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#640,402
of 34,357,901 outputs
Outputs from The Conversation
#76,991
of 212,273 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,544
of 331,618 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Conversation
#903
of 5,279 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,357,901 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 212,273 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 99.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 63% of its peers.
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