It is 10am at the Treasury casino in Brisbane and the roulette tables are filling up. Nearby, punters hunker down in front of a dazzling array of brightly coloured poker machines.
“My husband always told me not to play the pokies,” says Marian, an octogenarian who declines to give her surname or exact age. “He died a few years ago and now I come in here when I have nothing to do.”
Seven in 10 Australians enjoy a flutter at least once a year and are the biggest gamblers in the world, losing US$18.4bn in 2013 – US$1,037 per resident.
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