UWS academic co-authors gambling study

Dr Richard Woolley, from the University of Western Sydney, and Dr Charles Livingstone, from Monash University, had co-authored a study scathing about the states' regulation of the national poker machine industry.

The study found that state government s are addicted to the billions sucked in every year year from people with gambling problems. Almost half the $10 billion lost on poker machines nationally is spent by NSW gamblers.

The authors said state governments needed to accept less gambling revenue if they were serious about curbing the number of addicts