WA has less gambling harm than the rest of Australia. There’s one simple reason
By Charles Livingstone, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
Buly Cardak, Associate Professor of Economics, La Trobe Business School, La Trobe University
Heng Jiang, Associate professor, La Trobe University
Nicola Thomas, Lecturer in Economics
Western Australians spend about the same as people in other states when it comes to gambling, but gambling problems in WA are much, much lower.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2026