About the Authors

Florentine Petronella Martino

Affiliation School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

Peter Graeme Miller

petermiller.mail@gmail.com

Affiliation School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

Kerri Coomber

Affiliation School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia

Linda Hancock

Affiliation School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts & Education, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

Kypros Kypri

Affiliations School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia, Injury Prevention Research Unit, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Peter Miller receives funding from Australian Research Council and Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, grants from NSW Government, National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund, Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education, Cancer Council Victoria, Queensland government and Australian Drug Foundation, travel and related costs from Australasian Drug Strategy Conference. He has acted as a paid expert witness on behalf of a licensed venue and a security firm. Linda Hancock has been an unpaid expert witness in relation to gambling-related inquiries in Victorian and Commonwealth government inquiries, the Australian Productivity Commission, the South Australian Coronial Court, and inquiries in New Zealand, Canada and the UK; and she is a member of the Singapore Government International Advisory Panel. She was appointed by the Governor in Council as Chair of the Victorian Gambling Research Panel (2000-2004) and was a member of the Ministerial Roundtable on Gambling. She was Director of Research for the UK Responsible Gambling Fund and participated in that role on various UK committees on the ESRC, MRC, DCMS and the Gambling Commission. She has conducted independent peer review of bookmaker research for the UK Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and undertook research funded by the Campaign for Fairer Gambling evaluating the Responsible Gambling Trust funded research on fixed odds betting machines in bookmakers’ shops (2014). She is a Chief Investigator in an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant investigating mechanisms of industry influence in the tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries. She has received no funding directly or indirectly from gambling or alcohol industry sources for any purpose. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FPM PGM KK LH. Data curation: FPM. Formal analysis: FPM KC. Funding acquisition: PGM KK LH. Methodology: FPM PGM. Project administration: FPM. Supervision: FPM PGM. Validation: FPM KC. Visualization: FPM KC. Writing – original draft: FPM PGM. Writing – review & editing: FPM KC KK LH PGM.