Publications
Publications
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Submission to the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — July 2019
View details for "Submission to the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System" | Download "Submission to the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System" (PDF — 259.4 KB)The Foundation has made a submission to the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System. A key focus of the submission is ensuring gambling harm is understood as a mental health and public health issue, and that health services are better able to assist people with comorbid problem gambling and mental health conditions.
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A brief intervention to support gamblers to stick to their limits in EGM venues: an exploratory study
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — June 2019
View details for "A brief intervention to support gamblers to stick to their limits in EGM venues: an exploratory study" | Download "A brief intervention to support gamblers to stick to their limits in EGM venues: an exploratory study" (PDF — 926.8 KB)This study explored strategies people use to stick to spending limits when gambling on pokies, and tested the feasibility and effectiveness of an ‘action and coping planning’ intervention offered in venues to help people stick to limits.
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Identifying effective policy interventions to prevent gambling-related harm
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — June 2019
View details for "Identifying effective policy interventions to prevent gambling-related harm" | Download "Identifying effective policy interventions to prevent gambling-related harm" (PDF — 1.2 MB)The purpose of this project was to explore potential policy interventions to reduce gambling harm, drawing on existing gambling research, and evidence from other areas of public health.
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Submission to the Productivity Commission on mental health
The Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — April 2019
View details for "Submission to the Productivity Commission on mental health" | Download "Submission to the Productivity Commission on mental health" (PDF — 1.5 MB)The Foundation is a partner in VicHealth's submission to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into the role of improving mental health to support economic participation as well as enhancing productivity and economic growth. The Foundation highlighted the correlation between mental health conditions and problem gambling, and the social cost of gambling to Victoria.
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Local Prevention Program evaluation summary 2014 – 2017
November 2018
View details for "Local Prevention Program evaluation summary 2014 – 2017" | Download "Local Prevention Program evaluation summary 2014 – 2017" (PDF — 2.2 MB)This document provides a summary of the Local Prevention Program evaluation findings.
The evaluation focused primarily on the results and impacts of 17 funded projects delivered as part of phase 2 of the program, which ran from December 2015 to June 2017. The projects were diverse and directed at a range of settings and populations, including culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) groups, Victorian Aboriginal communities, young men and workplaces.
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Online gaming and gambling in children and adolescents – Normalising gambling in cyber places
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — September 2018
View details for "Online gaming and gambling in children and adolescents – Normalising gambling in cyber places" | Download "Online gaming and gambling in children and adolescents – Normalising gambling in cyber places" (PDF — 3.0 MB)This literature review examined the available research on children and adolescents' exposure to, and participation in, online gaming and gambling activities.
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Annual report 2017–2018
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — September 2018
View details for "Annual report 2017–2018" | Download "Annual report 2017–2018" (PDF — 5.0 MB)
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Gambling Harm Awareness Week 2018 brochure
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — September 2018
View details for "Gambling Harm Awareness Week 2018 brochure" | Download "Gambling Harm Awareness Week 2018 brochure" (PDF — 389.6 KB)Gambling Harm Awareness Week (8-14 October 2018). When we Talk.Share.Support. we can start to reduce gambling harm in our community.
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Gambling Harm Awareness Week 2018 Aboriginal brochure
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — September 2018
View details for "Gambling Harm Awareness Week 2018 Aboriginal brochure" | Download "Gambling Harm Awareness Week 2018 Aboriginal brochure" (PDF — 374.9 KB)
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Social influences on gamblers by risk group: An egocentric social network analysis
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — August 2018
View details for "Social influences on gamblers by risk group: An egocentric social network analysis" | Download "Social influences on gamblers by risk group: An egocentric social network analysis" (PDF — 3.4 MB)The research aimed to map the social networks of low- and moderate-risk gamblers, in terms of their gambling and other potentially risky behaviours, such as alcohol consumption. It sought to understand whether the social networks of low-risk and moderate-risk gamblers differ to those of non-gamblers, non-problem gamblers and problem gamblers.
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Effects of wagering marketing on vulnerable adults
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — August 2018
View details for "Effects of wagering marketing on vulnerable adults" | Download "Effects of wagering marketing on vulnerable adults" (PDF — 3.2 MB)This study examined the impact of approaches to wagering marketing, including inducements, on vulnerable adults.
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Direct messages received from wagering operators
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — August 2018
View details for "Direct messages received from wagering operators" | Download "Direct messages received from wagering operators" (PDF — 2.1 MB)This research examined the effects of ‘push marketing’ – direct promotional messages such as text messages, emails and phone calls – on wagering operators’ account-holders.
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Mobile EGMs Apps – The perfect substitute or the perfect storm?
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — August 2018
View details for "Mobile EGMs Apps – The perfect substitute or the perfect storm?" | Download "Mobile EGMs Apps – The perfect substitute or the perfect storm?" (PDF — 2.1 MB)The project examined the role of free‐to‐play gambling‐themed apps and their relationship to in‐venue gambling.
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Strategic plan 2018–2021
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — August 2018
View details for "Strategic plan 2018–2021" | Download "Strategic plan 2018–2021" (PDF — 372.5 KB)Our strategic plan provides a framework to guide the Foundation's activities with a focus on achieving our vision of a Victoria free from gambling-related harm.
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The development of empirically derived Australian responsible gambling limits
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — August 2018
View details for "The development of empirically derived Australian responsible gambling limits" | Download "The development of empirically derived Australian responsible gambling limits" (PDF — 2.8 MB)The project sought to identify a set of empirically based responsible gambling limits.
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Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation submission: Gaming micro-transactions for chance based items
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — July 2018
View details for "Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation submission: Gaming micro-transactions for chance based items" | Download "Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation submission: Gaming micro-transactions for chance based items" (PDF — 971.8 KB)Submission to Senate Environment and Communications References Committee, in relation to gaming micro-transactions for chance-based items.
On 27 July the Foundation made a submission to the committee's inquiry with specific references to loot boxes. The submission concentrated on the adequacy of current consumer protection and made particular reference to concerns relating to children. It noted similarities between features known to cause increased risk of harm in forms of gambling and the variable reinforcements offered by opening loot boxes in games.
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Convergence of online gaming and gambling –emerging issues
University of Adelaide — July 2018
View details for "Convergence of online gaming and gambling –emerging issues" | Download "Convergence of online gaming and gambling –emerging issues" (PDF — 4.7 MB)Download research fellow and clinical psychchologist Daniel King's presentation on links between gaming and gambling and defining predatory monetisation schemes.
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Weighing up the odds: young men, sports and betting
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — July 2018
View details for "Weighing up the odds: young men, sports and betting" | Download "Weighing up the odds: young men, sports and betting" (PDF — 3.8 MB)Research suggests that the gambling environment in Australia is changing. Sports betting participation has grown substantially in recent years and is emerging as a significant contributor to problem gambling, especially among younger adult males.
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Gambling and problem gambling in Victoria
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — July 2018
View details for "Gambling and problem gambling in Victoria" | Download "Gambling and problem gambling in Victoria" (PDF — 6.2 MB)Research conducted as part of Round 7 of the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation's Grants for Gambling Research Program, which explored the changing gambling environment.
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Research agenda, 2018–2022
Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation — June 2018
View details for "Research agenda, 2018–2022" | Download "Research agenda, 2018–2022" (PDF — 175.9 KB)Through our 2018–2022 research program, the Foundation aims to build the gambling evidence base, as well as research capacity and capability in Victoria and elsewhere, to reduce and prevent gambling harm at a population level.
Importantly, over the next five years, this will include a focus on outer-metropolitan, rural and regional areas of Victoria through partnerships with universities, local organisations and other entities. We are keen to engage with the needs of, and requests from, these communities.
