Overview

• The Australian Gambling Research Centre’s 2024 survey of 3,881 adults found participation rose to 65% from 57% in 2019.
• Fifteen percent reported gambling-related harm in the past year — about 3 million people — up from 11% in 2019, with losses estimated at $32 billion annually on legal gambling.
• Young adults aged 18–24 who gamble regularly were nearly twice as likely to be at high risk, and 7.7% of monthly gamblers were high risk with links to poor mental health, financial hardship and intimate partner violence.
• Reported harm was higher for Indigenous Australians at 27%, roughly double the rate for non‑Indigenous respondents.
• Reform groups say the 2023 Murphy Inquiry’s core proposals remain unimplemented, while the government cites BetStop, mandatory ID checks, a credit‑card ban for online betting and new ad taglines, with a formal response expected by late 2025.