“‘Let’s be real about it: if the access isn’t perceived to be valuable, why is it sold as a benefit of membership?” Williams said.” Indeed www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Is Sydney our money-laundering capital? AUSTRAC exposes the NSW entertainment-gambling industrial complex www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/31/p...

Research Stream 6 at #NSPC25 today, listening to A/Prof Carla Meurk from QCMHR presenting a data-linkage study, sharing insights into the trajectory of distress among construction workers.

A great presentation at #NSPC25 from A/Prof @angerintoul.bsky.social from The University of Melbourne on gambling-related suicide, highlighting the powerful commercial determinants that fuel the link between gambling and suicide, and the importance of disrupting harmful practices.

Now the election is over let’s get on with urgent gambling reforms theconversation.com/this-6-point...

Today @burnetinstitute.bsky.social launched a report on COVID's impact on mortality in Australia. Oz experienced a low toll in the first 2 years, but 30,000+ have died since - now plateauing at 7,000+ deaths/year. What does this mean & what can be done? Read on... www.burnet.edu.au/knowledge-an...

Krieger “Our job in public health is to prevent scapegoating & to document & make vividly clear… the causal connections between economic & social inequity, illiberalism, & the people’s health…may the record be clear… many of us in public health fought back” ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....

Whose dollars are affecting policy? www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Dutton’s deliberate Australia Day cruelty www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

The coroners' system in England and Wales is outdated and has failed to properly investigate gambling-related suicides for many families. Reforms are desperately needed. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

“Nothing will change until our anger gets powerful enough. But once you accept the truth of loss, and the truth of who perpetrated and profited from that loss, the anger comes rushing in, as fierce as the Santa Ana winds.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...

Great piece by Rob Csernyik on the urgent need to improve systems to identify gambling-related suicides, to help prevent these deaths ricochet.media/justice/dyin... @gclongform.bsky.social