References
Interviews
Between May 2015 and October 2017, I conducted over seventy interviews with recovering gambling addicts and their relatives, recreational gamblers, psychologists, psychiatrists, gambling counsellors, neuroscientists, state and federal politicians, local government councillors, poker machine manufacturers and designers, poker machine sales representatives, high-profile poker machine industry representatives, publicans, club chairmen and presidents, hospitality workers, lawyers, ex-gambling regulators, gambling experts, lobbying experts, public-health experts, and gambling-reform advocates. Not all of the interviewees feature in the book. Some were happy to speak on the public record while others requested anonymity, either because they did not want to be publicly identified as having a gambling problem or because they feared for their career and reputation if it was known they had spoken with me.
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