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Carolyn Crawford

Carolyn Crawford says:

 

"I am living proof that a gambling addiction can happen to anyone.

 

Aged 64 I went to prison after being found guilty of stealing from my employer to gamble on poker machines.

 

Today after paying all the money back to my employer, I can now speak out about gambling harm and advocate for gambling reform. I perform my story with the Three Sides of the Coin theatre group and a speaker through Respin speakers bureau. 

 

I have extensive experience in working to change the media narrative around gambling harm and its impacts. My goal is that others are protected from the harm I experienced, especially young people, which is why I have joined GLEE.  The support of other lived experience people is important to my continuing recovery as well as encouraging me to continue pushing for gambling reform."

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Gambling harm is damaging and avoidable. As people who have experienced gambling harm personally we know the solutions and need to be consulted on any reforms to gambling regulation in Australia.

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GHLEE operates on the unceded, sovereign lands of the First Peoples of the land now known as Australia. We acknowledge their generosity in sharing their land with us. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present.

Their hurt and that of their peoples endured since colonisation has been unfathomable.

Gambling harm is just another way Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been affected by colonisation. Some studies suggest gambling harm rates of between 10 to 20 times higher among the Indigenous population. Much like tobacco and alcohol’s health impacts, this disproportionate harm is inexorably linked to intergenerational trauma, poverty, unemployment, and factors such as the easy accessibility of gambling venues in certain communities.  

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