E to'a 4,000 tagata na auai i se su'esu'ega na fa'amaopoopoina e le Australian Gambling Research Centre i le Australian Institute of Family Studies.
Na iloa ai o le 65% o tagata na auai i se ta'aloga pelētupe pe fa'atasi i le tausaga ua tuana'i; e 'ova i le 30% pe fa'atasi i le masina.
O le to'atele e ta'a'alo pelētupe i le Loto, soso'o ai ma pepa scratch tickets, masini poka, tu'uga solofanua, ma petipetiga i ta'aloga.
Na iloa o le itupa o ali'i e sili atu ona ta'a'alo i petipetiga ma sili atu fo'i ona mauluga aofa'i o tupe e fa'a-alu ai.
Na iloa i le ripoti e 'ova i le 3 miliona tagata na fa'aalia a'afiaga mai ta'aloga pelētupe e pei o le atugalu ma fa'anoanoa i le gau, 'aitalafu tupe e ta'alo ai, fa'atau meatotino e ta'alo ai, poo le toe fo'i i le aso e soso'o ai ma se gau e toe taumafai e tuliloa pe toe maua mai le tupe na gau, ae atili gau 'a'ano ai.
Na saunoa Dr Gabriel Tillman o le Australian Gambling Research Centre o le to'atele o tagata nei ua iai faafitauli i le pelētupe, ua latou molimau i le iai o taimi ua mafaufau ai e faamuta lona ola.
"If we're talking about those high risk gamblers, that's about 550,000 people. And so of those people, 16 per cent are experiencing suicidal thoughts, and so that's the kind of magnitude we're talking about. That means they're going without food, missing their bills, borrowing money."
I tausaga uma, e faatusa i le $32 Billion e gau i ta'aloga petipetiga i Ausetalia nei - o le aofa'i aupito maualuga i le lalolagi per capita.
O le lata i le 20% o mafutaga faaulugalii e pelētupe
se tasi o le ulugali'i faatasi pe sili atu i le vaiaso, na molimau i le sauaina o seisi o le ulugali'i ona o le peletupe a lona to'alua.
Na iloa ai fo'i o tupulaga talavou e sili atu ona a'afia i latou i le va o le 18 ma le 24 tausaga le matutua.
E pei ona fa'amatalaina e Dr Charles Livingstone o le Univesite o Monash University.
"I mean, one of the problems that young people experience, I would suggest no one has been brought up in our history in an environment where they're constantly bombarded with the promotion of gambling around sport, around normal activities. You can't go and watch a football game without being bombarded with some promotion of gambling. So what we've got is this sort of mad social experiment where young people are being bombarded with gambling advertising from a young age, and we expect that it's all going to come out right? "
O isi tagata e sili atu ona lamatia mai ta'aloga petipetiga ma i'u ai ina avea ma fa'afitauli, o tagata muamua - e fa'aluaina atu ona a'afia ai nai lo isi tagata i le atunuu.
O tagata aumau poo migrants, e tele ina le fiafia i pelega tupe ae mo nisi e pu'eina loa e le mailei, vave loa ona avea ma se faafitauli ogaoga.
E pei o se tasi o alii na ia ta'ua i le polokalame SBS Arabic, ua fiu e tau taofi, ae ua le mafai ma i'u ai ina motusia le mafutaga ma lona aiga.
"I couldn't. I didn't stop because when I see in my pocket, maybe $10, $20, $30, I go to play. I go to play and I lose it and I come back very upset. Many, many times. Many times. Always, always when I go to club, when I come back, I said, oh, this is the last time I am going because I don't want to lose my money straight away. I go, next time when I have more money. Sorry this is a problem.. this is my problem."
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