CONFERENCE PROGRAM 2009
WEDNESDAY 18th NOVEMBER
11:00 Registration desk opens12:30 Conference Welcome – Leigh Barrett, President, NAGS
1:00 Plenary Presentation: Professor Bo Bernhard, University of Las Vegas
AFTERNOON TEA: 2:30 - 3:00 pm
CONCURRENT SESSION 1 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Plenary Room / Break Out Room 1 / Break Out Room 2
Psychological Perspectives
Chair: Keis Ohtsuka / Motivational Factors
Chair: Leigh Barrett / Problem gambling
Chair: Matt Rockloff
Is video game playing a risk factor for pathological gambling in Australian adolescents? Paul Delfabbro, Daniel King, Chrisi Lambos / Dissociation, impulsivity and gambling problems among affective motivation subtypes in undergraduate gamblers.
Michael Ellery
/ The forgotten co-morbidity: Personality variables and vulnerability to problem gambling. Clive AllcockAlcohol delays the processing of advice during gambling. Jim Phillips, R.G. Ogeil / Motivations to gamble and gender as therapeutically meaningful predictors of gambling problems: a Punter’s view. Cynthia Dunn, N.J. Caltabiano, D.G. Graham / A longitudinal study of gambling: Potential and challenges. Stephen Creigh-Tyte
The effect of mere presence on poker machine gambling. Matthew Rockloff / Homes away from home: Registered clubs as leisure providers for older people living in the Tweed Heads region of Australia. Janet Patford, Helen Breen / Do the DSM-IV criteria for pathological gambling form a unidimensional scale?
Karoline Prinz, Michael Walker
EGM gambling venues: Local venues are different from the casino. Anna Thomas / The development of a multi-dimensional gambling accessibility scale. Nerilee Hing, John Haw / Prevalence of problem gambling: A growing mess in Australia. Michael WalkerWELCOME RECEPTION 5:30 - 7:30 pm [check]
THURSDAY 19TH NOVEMBER
8:30 Registration desk opens9:15 Welcome Announcements– Leigh Barrett, President, NAGS
9:30 Keynote Address – Gary Banks, Productivity Commission
MORNING TEA 10:45 am – 11:15 am
CONCURRENT SESSION 2: 11:15 am – 12:45 pm
Plenary Room / Break Out Room 1 / Break Out Room 2 / Break Out Room 3
Host Responsibility
Chair: Nerilee Hing / Online GamblingChair: John Haw / Industry Operations
Chair: Mary Marquass / Help-seeking
Chair: Mark Henley
The Host Responsibility program at SkyCity Adelaide Casino. Tony Morgan / Interconnectedness of gambling and online communities. Jani Kinnunen / Adjustment of profitability, liquidity and solvency ratios during the economic downturn (2006-2008): Strategies of the top 3 high-end and international US gaming companies. Toni Repetti / Evaluation of problem gambling intervention services. Rebecca Coombes, Maria Bellringer
Casino venue host responsibility: Is it lip service or do we really care? Caleb Taiala / The provision and role of responsible gambling features in influencing online gambling behaviour. Shaaron Kapcelovich / Relationship selling and the service performance of casino frontline employees for the high-end market. Catherine Prentice / Self-regulation strategies for gamblers. Susan Moore, Anna Thomas, Michael Kyrios, Glen Bates, Denise Meredyth
South Australian hotel and club industry intervening with problem gambling. Rhonda Turley / Translating responsible gambling regulation to an online environment under South Australia’s betting operators’ regime. Matthew
Loader / The redistribution of EGM revenue to community benefit by clubs in the Northern Territory. Waimei Lee / Health promotion resource kit for problem gambling- Taking action on problem gambling from a public health perspective. TBA
LUNCH 12:45 - 1:30 pm
SESSION 3: 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Plenary Room / Break Out Room 1 / Break Out Room 2
Host Responsibility
Chair: Leigh Barrett / Indigenous gambling
Chair: Kirsten Dunn / Workshop (90 minutes)
Identifying problem gambling behaviour on the casino floor. Virginia Baker, Mary Marquass / Conducting a gambling survey in an Australian indigenous community. Nerilee Hing, Helen Breen, Ashley Gordon / Word of mouth- Arrernte gambling interventions in the Northern Territory
Debra Mill, Margaret Kemarre Turner, Christopher Brocklebank
Responsible gambling awareness training. Sue Etheridge / Screening for gambling issues in NSW aboriginal communities. Sofia Lema, Jenny Hunt
Host responsibility at SkyCity Auckland: Key elements and implementation of its host responsibility programme. Andrew Gaukrodger / Reported gambling problems amongst the indigenous and total Australian populations: Implications for minimizing harm. Matthew Stevens, Martin Young
AFTERNOON TEA: 3:00 - 3:30 pm
CONCURRENT SESSION 4: 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Plenary Room / Break Out Room 1 / Break Out Room 2
CALD issues
Chair: Martin Young /
Online gambling / issues
Chair: Daniel King
/ Workshop (90 minutes)Caring for Pacific people through telephone counselling: The Pasifika Gambling Telephone Helpline Experience. Hana Asi-Pakieto / Internet therapy: Logging on to a new form of treatment for problem gambling. Sally Monaghan / Gambling and co-morbid disorders
Nerilee Hing, John Haw, Max Abbott, Maria Bellringer
Engaging culturally and linguistically diverse communities in responsible gambling: An action research project. Gerard Moloney, D. Rogers, M. Mayday, C.M-Amo / Strategies and technologies for responsible gambling- Playscan as an example of communication between operator and player about the risks of gambling. Thomas Nilsson
Ambivalent moralities: Gambling among African and Asian immigrants in Finland. Perpetual Crentsil / Gambling exclusion scheme online database. Jacquie Shea
NAGS AGM 5:15pm [Need location]
FRIDAY 20TH NOVEMBER
9:15 Welcome Announcements– Leigh Barrett, President, NAGS
9:30 Keynote Address: Lessons learned from the development of a problem gambling residential and day treatment system in Ontario. Robert Murray , Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
MORNING TEA 10:45 am – 11:15 am
CONCURRENT SESSION 5: 11:15 am – 12:45 pm
Plenary Room / Break Out Room 1 / Break Out Room 2 / Break Out Room 3
Exclusion / Barring
Chair: Bernie Dwyer / Indigenous Issues
Chair: Helen Breen / Legal /Harm
Chair: Mark Henley / Workshop (90 Minutes)
Effectiveness of gambling venue exclusion processes: A pilot study. Maria Bellringer, Rebecca Coombes / Word of mouth- Gambling stories for indigenous Australia Christopher Brocklebank, Debra Mill, Margaret Kemarre Turner. / A specialist legal service for gamblers. Richard Brading / Odd bedfellows or ideal partners
May Shotton
Voluntary Barring Scheme: Profiles, expectations and the implications for help services Kirsten Dunn, Nicole Bevan / The house of cards: An analysis of political division surrounding gambling in a remote indigenous community. Marisa Fogarty / Problem gambling and fraud. Mark EnglandHitting the jackpot: The experience of self-barring. Elaine Nuske, Nerilee Hing / Addressing aboriginal gambling. Ashley Gordon / Problem gambling amongst people presenting to an area mental health service: An extension study. Anthony de Castella, Pip Bolding, Michael Field, Suellen Butler, Sanja Cosic, Sandra Keppich Arnold, Jayashri Kulkarni
LUNCH 12:45 - 1:30 pm
CONCURRENT SESSION 6: 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Plenary Room / Break out Room 1 / Break Out Room 2
EGMs & Their Distribution
Chair: Paul Delfabbro / CALD IssuesChair: Jacqui Hutchinson / IDEAS forum
Chair: Anna Thomas
Applying mathematics to poker machines to increase consumer protection. Tristan Barnett / Suburban electronic gaming machine players’ views of self-control over gambling, luck and winning, and gaming service expectations. Keis Ohtsuka / Problem gambling or the gambling problem: Is addiction a useful concept? Cynthia Dunn, D.G. Graham, N.J. Caltabiano
Focused mathematics teaching for the prevention of problem gambling: A demonstration. Donald Smith / Caring and philotimo in Greek families. Maria Petrohilos, Maria Kladis, Katerina Petridis / Problem gambling as a process addiction. Janine Robinson
Predicting the spatial distribution of gambling vulnerability for entire jurisdictions. Martin Young, Bruce Doran /
The insight of a bicultural and bilingual worker who works with the Chinese community in Adelaide. Fong Ung
/ The form of gambling activity preferred by the Chinese community in Adelaide. Fong UngAFTERNOON TEA: 3:00 – 3:30 pm
CONCURRENT SESSION 7: 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Plenary Room / Break out Room 1 / Break Out Room 2
Public Policy
Chair: Alun Jackson / TreatmentChair: Greg Coman / Adolescent Gambling
Chair: Kath Heading
From public good to private jackpot: the past, present and future of Australian lotteries. Jan McMillen / Gestalt and gambling: a case study. Peter Harris / Once a gambler-always a gambler? A longitudinal analysis of gambling patterns in young people making the transition from adolescence to adulthood. Paul Delfabbro, Anthony Winefield, Sarah Anderson
Engaging stakeholders: herding cats? Paul Marden, Rosa Billi / TBA / The convergence of gambling and digital media: Implications for gambling in young people. Daniel King
Navigating the problem gambling / harm minimization quagmire: A national approach? Rosa Billi, Paul Marden / Counsellor accounts of how best to respond to problem gamblers in South Australian gambling venues. Sharon Nisbet / Evaluation of a gambling education workshop for year 11 and 12 students. Matthew Looker, Deborah Graham
Harm minimization in the Northern Territory: Context and process. Perry Morrison /
How culture may impact on client beliefs about luck and why clinicians should care. Janine Robinson
/ This is it! The AGC responsible gambling education program for schools. Cheryl VardonCLOSING COMMENTS: PLENARY ROOM 5:30pm
CONFERENCE DINNER [To be added]: 7:00pm
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