Author: South Australia. Supreme Court
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Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1090

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Author: Titus O'Reily
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1760894265
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Australians lose more money gambling than any other country. But how did we get here? In his inimitable, hilarious style, sports historian Titus O’Reily charts the rise, fall and rise of sport gambling in Australia. We’ll gamble on anything, from two flies crawling up a wall to less important things like federal elections. And thanks to the internet, phones and gambling-tax loving governments, these days Australians can indulge their love of a punt no matter what they’re doing. Aussies could be at the birth of a child or performing open-heart surgery and still put a bet on. It wasn’t always this easy. Once, you could only gamble on sport illegally. Which, it turns out, was actually also pretty easy. But over the last thirty years gambling on sport has been legalised, first slowly and then very quickly. Now almost every ad on TV is about sport betting, and even some of the players are getting in on the wagering. Please, Gamble Irresponsibly traces the history of gambling in Australia from horseracing in the colonial era, through the rise of SP bookies and organised crime, to the commercialisation of the industry and its impact on communities and the integrity of sport. With billions of dollars involved, what are the odds of putting the genie back in the bottle?

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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Author: South Australia. Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Henry Charles Howard Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire
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Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 756

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Author: Australia. High Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1322

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Author: Mary Groves
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459622626
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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An outback tale of a woman who spent the prime of her life in the Northern Territory, often struggling to put a meal on the table, told in simple, straightforward language, the narrative zipping along at a lively pace, with one cracking yarn after another....

Author: Tony Ward
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317987667
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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For many Australians, there are two great passions: sport and ‘taking the piss’. This book is about national identity – and especially about Australia’s image as a sporting country. Whether reverent or not, any successful national image has to reflect something about the reality of the country. But it is also influenced by the reasons that people have for encouraging particular images – and by the conflicts between differing views of national identity, and of sport. Buffeted by these elements, both the extent of Australian sports madness and the level of stirring have varied considerably over time. While many refer to long-lasting factors, such as the amount of sunshine, this book argues that the ebb and flow of sporting images are strongly linked to current views of national identity. Starting from Archer’s win in the first Melbourne Cup in 1861, it traces the importance of trade unions in the formation of Australian Rules, the success of a small rural town in holding one of the world’s foremost running races, and the win-from-behind of a fat arsed wombat knocking off the official mascots of Sydney 2000. This book was based on a special issue of Soccer and Society.

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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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