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Australian group threatens to launch gambling app for kids
January 23, 2014
Courier Mail – A protest group wanting to stop sports betting ads during broadcasts has threatened to launch a children’s gambling app unless laws to stop them are enforced. The dummy site Sim Bet “Sports Betting Fun for the Whole Family” has been set up by a group calling itself SimBet to show how it would make good on its threat if the Federal Government did not act by a February deadline. But welfare workers and gambling academics have warned against the strategy because it could backfire and encourage gambling. The site features so-called endorsements from children such as “Me…