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Australia: New evidence that gambling industry profits from the poorest suburbs

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Recent statistics from the Australian state of New South Wales underline the extent to which the gambling industry preys upon the poorest and most oppressed layers of the working class. Quarterly statistics from the NSW Department of Gaming and Racing indicate that in the heavily working class Sydney suburb of Canterbury-Bankstown, where residents have an average weekly income of $263, weekly spending on poker machines is equivalent to $181 per person.

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