Shaun’s three-part documentary series on Australia’s love of gambling is on screens next month!
Shaun Micallef’s Going for Broke will air on May 19th at 8pm on ABC TV, and will also be streaming on iView. Here’s a preview:
You can also watch clip of the “companion” documentary, Shaun Micallef’s On the Sauce, on YouTube.
Sorry, to bail you up in Melbourne on Saturday night – you just surprised me when you walked down Swanston directly in front of me – so I called out Shaun. You look so uncannily like yourself – strange that! You are very friendly and polite! Take it easy
Ah that’s awesome that you had a great Shaun encounter! He’d just been talking about De’Ath Takes a Holiday at the Melbourne Writers Festival.
Shaun – I’m watching your gambling doco “Going for Broke” and noted that you glossed over why WA does not have pokies except in the Casino… It’s a story in itself. And a dodgy arrangement by Dallas Dempster and the government at the time meant that only the Burswood Casino had pokies… and after that agreement expired, the government realised that the harm of pokies was apparent in other States… so the Government claimed the ‘high moral ground’ and said it was against the social harm that pokies wrought – and refused to put them in pubs. The Casino was delighted!!!
Hello Shaun, just watched last night going for broke segment. What can I say this is a frightening insight to a world so alien to me however amongst us in under cover covert. WOW.
As a retired analyst I am impressed with the research on this topic data, historical and the personal. Y = (fx2).
Really enjoying Going for Broke. Just a comment re pokies. My father worked in hospitality for decades and he told me the machines have a switch at the back for ‘high return’ and ‘low return’. To change the switch the licensee has to apply to the Licencing Commission. So the idea is to have a pokie on high return for some weeks, then switch it over to low return. Thus a punter gets hooked on a machine that is paying out (‘returning’) lots of small wins, then suddenly it is not. This proves the machines are not only designed for low chances, but is technically controlled. Every anti-gambling doco I’ve seen never reports on this as I think the gaming industry does not want it well known!