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Australia's gambling epidemic
by Mrs Roslyn Phillips, BSc, DipEd with Canon Lance Shilton, Rev David Pawson and Rev Dr Stuart Robinson		 copies
An Australian specialist in gambling problems says that gambling has become Australia's second biggest industry after the mining industry. Hotels and clubs have benefited greatly from poker machines, but other small businesses have not. Charities, too, have been hard hit. What will be the long-term effects on Australia of the current explosion in gambling? This paper explores some of the key issues.

The social risks of casinos
by Dr David Phillips, BSc, PhD, ThA		 copies
"In recent years there has been a massive growth of gambling in Australia," said the Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide. "Large-scale gambling diverts resources from productive to non-productive fields; it fosters unhealthy covetousness by holding out the prospect of enormous wealth without work; and as a form of recreation it is essentially anti-social." This paper by Dr David Phillips, BSc, PhD, ThA, outlines the experience of casinos around the world and their social risks.

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