{"id":902332,"date":"2026-04-29T04:27:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/albaneses-gambling-reform-is-social-ruin-as-public-policy\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T04:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:27:05","slug":"albaneses-gambling-reform-is-social-ruin-as-public-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/albaneses-gambling-reform-is-social-ruin-as-public-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanese\u2019s gambling reform is social ruin as public policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>\n\t\t\tIn times of crisis, the city of Carthage would start feeding children to a bronze god. Carthage had a Baal Hammon. We have Sportsbet.\t\t<\/p>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.crikey.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/04\/albogambling-1.jpg?quality=70&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (Image: Private Media)\" decoding=\"async\"  ><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPrime Minister Anthony Albanese (Image: Private Media)\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<div>\n<p>Angus Taylor is right about migrants \u2014 there are some things we never quite understand about Australia. I\u2019ve been here 14 years and I still don\u2019t get why gambling is not only legal, but legal in the way asbestos once was: sold to you by men in suits as though it were not poison, but the foundation of modern life.<\/p>\n<p>When I first arrived, I was taken aback by how omnipresent it was. In other Western countries, it was something that took place in designated sin-zones, in special neon precincts where sad men in shorts go to negotiate with probability and lose custody of their dignity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Sami Shah <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crikey.com.au\/2026\/04\/17\/anthony-albaneses-gambling-reform-peta-murphy-sportsbet\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In times of crisis, the city of Carthage would start feeding children to a bronze god. Carthage had a Baal Hammon. We have Sportsbet. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (Image: Private Media) Angus Taylor is right about migrants \u2014 there are some things we never quite understand about Australia. I\u2019ve been here 14 years and I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":902333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106754,31800],"tags":[106753,11082],"class_list":{"0":"post-902332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-albaneses","8":"category-gambling","9":"tag-albaneses","10":"tag-gambling"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}