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Does free-to-air TV really need gambling ads to survive?

  • Written by Andrew Hughes, Lecturer, Research School of Management, Australian National University
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If anything is a sure bet right now, it’s corporate Australia’s willingness to use some variation of the “for society’s good” argument.

The most recent example of this is the claim being made, including by federal minister Bill Shorten, that an outright ban on gambling advertising would be...

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