Mountains and Molehills: a spatiotemporal analysis of poker machine expenditure in the Northern Territory of Australia

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dc.contributor.authorYoung, Martin
dc.contributor.authorLamb, David
dc.contributor.authorDoran, Bruce
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T22:32:39Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.updated2016-02-24T10:50:18Z
dc.description.abstractOver the last several decades, electronic gaming machines (EGMs) have been steadily introduced into non-casino gambling venues, that is pubs and clubs, in all Australian jurisdictions apart from Western Australia. This spatial dispersal is of immediate policy concern given the documented relationship between EGM participation and gambling-related harm. However, while research has been conducted on the geography of EGM gambling in metropolitan Australia, less is known about the spatial patterns of EGM distribution in remote urban centres. In this paper we present a spatial and temporal examination of EGM expenditure trends in the main urban centres of the Northern Territory on a venue-by-venue basis over a 5-year period (2002-07). Three general spatial patterns of EGM expenditure were identified, namely suburban gambling complexes, city-centre gambling agglomerations, and opportunistic gambling nodes. We explain these patterns in the context of the interplay between existing spatial infrastructure, the accessibility of venues to particular markets, and the overall market distortions produced by regulation. We suggest that the sensitivity of existing harm-minimisation tools, based on a generic capping of EGM numbers by venue type, could be improved by consideration of these spatial processes at the local level.
dc.identifier.issn0004-9182
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/55857
dc.publisherCarfax Publishing, Taylor & Francis Group
dc.sourceAustralian Geographer
dc.subjectKeywords: Electronic gaming machines; Gambling; Kernel density analysis; Northern Territory; Spatial distribution; Venues
dc.titleMountains and Molehills: a spatiotemporal analysis of poker machine expenditure in the Northern Territory of Australia
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue3
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage269
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage249
local.contributor.affiliationYoung, Martin , Charles Darwin University
local.contributor.affiliationLamb, David, Charles Darwin University
local.contributor.affiliationDoran, Bruce, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailu9904691@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidDoran, Bruce, u9904691
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor160499 - Human Geography not elsewhere classified
local.identifier.ariespublicationU4279067xPUB342
local.identifier.citationvolume40
local.identifier.doi10.1080/00049180903127721
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-79960204470
local.identifier.thomsonID000269604900001
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByU4279067
local.type.statusPublished Version

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