Books & arts
25 April 2025
Sport and gambling are becoming dangerously intertwined on both sides of the Pacific
Essays & reportage
22 November 2021
The Packers maintained their wealth and power through almost four generations. Then things went wrong
National affairs
22 July 2021
Submissions to the Victorian royal commission add to a powerful case against the once-burgeoning company
National affairs
27 August 2019
His father’s media empire is long gone, but James Packer is still treated with kid gloves by both sides of politics
Essays & reportage
1 July 2013
Targeting marginal seats is nothing new in politics, but the gambling industry has shown it can work for lobby groups too. James Panichi pieces together the story
National affairs
21 March 2013
Are Australian gamblers getting value for money, asks Darryl Woodford
National affairs
2 July 2009
When the Communist Party bought a lotto ticket this week, Comrade Michael Laski inevitably sprang to mind, writes Brett Evans.
National affairs
13 March 2009
All the evidence is in, yet the government has ordered another inquiry into the impact of gambling, writes Peter Mares