Besides, there seem to be intangible benefits derived indirectly by businesses that thrive on tourist gambling businesses like airlines, hotel, and alcohol industry, transportation, and several other businesses. The positive aspects of gambling seem to be in terms of generating employment, incomes, and higher spending capacity for economies that depend upon gambling as a source of revenue. Internet gambling has superseded gaming machines, poker, and casino, just as these forms of gambling had overtaken horse betting, card games, and other forms of earlier gambling. However, the Government has now realized that compulsive gambling, especially in its new internet avatar, is quite competent in creating conditions conducive to problem gambling which entails serious economic losses in terms of diminution of job performance, family stresses, commission of financial irregularities to pay off a gambling debt, and finally ruin and bankruptcy. More significantly, the Australian government has so far adopted a conciliatory and indulgent attitude towards most kinds of gambling, which has been the main reason for the rampant growth and proliferation of both forms of gambling, legal and illegal, in the Australian homeland.

Reason why gambling should be illegal