Oliver Hartwich
speaker
270 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Aug
Oliver Hartwich’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm wanting to do it for as long as I can remember.
I mean, this is like a cancer.
You've got people losing everything from gambling.
The stat I gave you a couple of three weeks back, in New South Wales alone, New South Wales is home...
to 75% of the world's poker machines.
Can you get your head around that?
$1 million an hour is being lost on poker machines alone.
Now, turn on television.
I don't know if you've been watching the World Cup.
It's just littered with ads from bloody gaming companies.
Oh, hop on, get a multi.
It's just disgusting because you know there are people out there who are doing just that.
They're losing money they can ill afford to lose.
Kids are going hungry.
Mortgages aren't getting paid because gambling is an addiction, Mike.
The same as smoking, I guess, and alcoholism and all the other addictions that we talk about.
But labour is powerless.
The government, state and federal, they're like deer in the headlights because these gambling lobbies have got a lot of money.
The...
You know, the media companies that rely on gambling revenue are very, very powerful as well.
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