Gambling industry flourished in Australia, you can easily find billboards promoting huge cash jackpockets on the high way. Rows of aging punters sip bear and waiting for payouts in a rundown suburb.

This is no anormly .According to H2 gambling capital, australians fritter away more money per person than any other country, as they would bet on two flies walking up a wall.

This is partly beacuse of the proliferation of pokies.After decades of  libraliasation, the country is peppered with gambling machines, which can be found in clubs or pubs. Few states restrict them.  In addition, the pokies are designed to get players hooked, tricks like "near misses" can cause the body realse dopamine, a feel good neurotransmitter.

To make things worse, problem gamblers from poor areas usually sunk more money into pokies.

Confronting such situation, the federal goverment could in theroy , interven. But the gambling industry, which claimed themselves creating thousands of jobs and making "huge social contribution"  ,derailed such attempt. The fact is, it donates lavishly to both big political parties and independent politicians, which makes it no different from a bribe,

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