Gaming

A national counselling program Gambling Help Online has been launched to help problem gamblers overcome their financially crippling addictions.

Six months after a flash flood inundated the tiny Noosa hinterland community of Kin Kin, new doors have finally gone on the town's historic Country Life Hotel.

Queensland's most lucrative gaming machines are in Logan - an area facing a surge in joblessness.

A policeman allegedly caught urinating on a pokie machine at a Sunshine Coast nightclub has been served a notice to appear in court next month.

The off-duty officer was among a group o

High school students are being given lessons on the evils of gambling in a bid to combat an explosion in the number of teenage punters.

Counsellors said teens were gambling online using the

THEY are the pubs with no buyer.

Of 30 hotels placed on the market in Queensland this year only a handful have sold, as brokers struggle to find buyers and buyers struggle to find lenders.<

Teenagers who play video games regularly are more likely to develop obsessive and antisocial tendencies that lead to problem gambling.

Fewer Australians are playing the pokies these days but it seems those who do are losing more.

Gamblers diagnosed with a pathological addiction have full control of their actions but choose to succumb to temptation, Crown has told a court.

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