Gambling Research

Credible knowledge of gambling prevalence and its social consequences in the Territory is critical to the informed debate of relevant policy and regulation. Combining some of Australia’s leading gambling researchers, this program aims to position the Northern Territory as a leader in evidence-based gambling regulation in complex multicultural settings.

It investigates regulated and problem gambling in Northern Territory urban, regional and Indigenous communities, and attempts to respond to gambling regulation and policy needs. It will conduct the first detailed exploration of the effects of commercial gambling on Aboriginal people in Northern Australia and endeavours to answer questions raised by findings to date, such as the socioeconomic impact of gambling in Territory communities; and the behaviour patterns of problem, regular and non-regular gamblers.

Despite the identified need for such knowledge, no substantial effort to understand gambling impact and prevalence in the Northern Territory had been made prior to 2005. This led the school to initiate and pioneer a research program that has since produced methodically robust results, which have been published in a number of reports and peer reviewed journals.

Project leader: Dr Martin Young
Industry Partners: NT Treasury, NT Department of Justice, Australian National University, Charles Darwin University School of Australian Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the School of Health Sciences.
Funders: Community Benefit Fund, NT Treasury, ARC linkages grant.

Reports:

Destination-style gambling - a literature review that informed the Victorian Department of Justice' report Destination gaming.
Northern Territory Gambling Prevalence Survey 2005
Indigenous Gambling Scoping Study
An Overview of Gambling in the Northern Territory

Fact sheets:


Problem gambling in the Northern Territory (.pdf)	Spatial analysis on non-casino poker machine expenditure in the Northern Territory (.pdf)	Electronic gaming machines in the Northern Territory (.pdf)	Gambling participation in the Northern Territory (.pdf)

Program fact sheet (.pdf)

Publications:

Young, M., & Stevens, M. (2008). SOGS and CPGI: Parallel comparison on a diverse population. Journal of Gambling Studies, March 2008.

Young, M., Stevens, M., & Morris, M. (2008). Problem gambling within the non-Indigenous population of the Northern Territory of Australia: A multivariate analysis of risk factors. International Gambling Studies, 8, 77 – 93

Young, M., Barnes, T., Stevens, M., Paterson, M., & Morris, M. (2007). The changing landscape of Indigenous Gambling in northern Australia: Current knowledge and future directions. International Gambling Studies, 7(3), 327-347.