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Stewart Kenny was one of the pioneers of modern sports betting, but he has lingering regrets about his three decades in the industry.

'If I could live my life again, you know, I would have been more proactive on a gambling addiction,' he says.

'I should have seen the harm from gambling addiction much earlier than I did. And must take some of the blame.'

As a co-founder and chief executive of the gambling giant Paddy Power he was a driving force behind the company's success. But he walked away from the company in 2016.

'I resigned from Paddy Power because the industry was doing absolutely nothing, in my view, about gambling addiction.'

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The Irishman believes sports betting is not as dangerous as poker machines or casino games.

He campaigned to prevent poker machines being introduced in Ireland and says Australia's addiction to pokies is why it loses more money from gambling than any other country in the world.

'Looking at addiction, it is Australia that you go to first to see what happens when it all goes wrong.'

While Kenny was still a non-executive director of the company Paddy Power also had skin in the game in Australia, acquiring local brand Sportsbet in 2012.

When it comes to sports betting Mr Kenny wants to see more regulation of the industry to help limit losses from problem gamblers.

'The vital thing is to make the product slightly less addictive and safer. There are voluntary deposit limits. But in my view, they should be mandatory, so everybody who opens up an account has to nominate the maximum they will deposit in a day.'

The former gambling company executive has a stark warning for the industry.

'If they don't curb some of their products. Then I think they will become toxic and they will get a stench off them like the tobacco industry.'

Kids need to realise 'advertising doesn't go naturally with sport'

Stewart Kenny is at heart a marketing man.

Paddy Power became one of the most successful bookmakers in Europe off the back of its cheeky advertising campaigns.

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But he believes the industry is causing harm to children with its blanket advertising.

'The vital thing is that it's not normalised with children. That they realise that advertising doesn't go naturally with sport,' he said.

'You can play sport. You can enjoy sport. You don't have to bet on every sport. I love gambling. Don't get me wrong.'

Stewart Kenny was a relatively late convert to this view about the harms of gambling advertising and says he was influenced by the work of Deakin University academic Associate Professor Samantha Thomas and her team.

Their 2017 research showed that 75 per cent of 8-16-year-olds thought gambling was a normal or common part of sport.

'The majority of children in our research studies can recall the names of gambling companies, can tell us the colours of gambling brands, and match specific promotions styles with brands,' Dr Thomas said.

'There is also evidence that some of the promotions used by these companies, such as cash back or refund offers, are creating a perception for young people that gambling has little or no risk attached to it.'

Last year regulations came into force that prohibited gambling advertising during live sports broadcasts between 5am and 8.30PM.

However, gambling ads can still be broadcast before and after matches.

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The same rules apply to the promotion of betting odds.

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They can only be referred to up to five minutes before the scheduled start of play and five minutes after, if it's before 8:30PM.

Dr Thomas says these measures don't go far enough.

'Our research clearly shows that the current regulatory systems for gambling advertising are ineffective,' she said.

'There is now robust evidence that young people are exposed to gambling advertising and promotions across many different types of media platforms.'

'Young people are highly critical of the ubiquity of gambling promotions, and the potential risks that these promotions pose for young people. They believe that more should be done by governments and sporting organisations to protect them.'

'When young people are given the opportunity to have a say about gambling, most think that sporting codes should do more to protect them from being exposed to gambling ads.'

Pressure on Cricket Australia to ban betting ads

Cricket Australia has a commercial relationship with bet365, the company at the centre of allegations published by ABC Investigations this week around secret techniques to restrict successful punters while allowing problem gamblers to keep losing.

Cricket Australia describes the global betting giant as a 'gold' partner and during matches its ads and odds are everywhere.

Bet365 has its logo on prominent parts of Australian cricket grounds, including the boundary rope, and on fences and advertising boards.

A spruiker for the company promotes the odds as part of the pay TV Test match coverage.

Cricket Australia's website is often emblazoned with bet365 advertising and it features prominently as the 'play of the day' sponsor on Cricket Australia's social media platforms.

The Reverend Tim Costello from the Alliance for Gambling Reform has called on Cricket Australia to drop its commercial partnership with bet365.

'Cricket all summer is a national delight — an inspiration from the bush to the beach,' Mr Costello said.

'Bet365 in our faces as one of the Aussie team sponsors is a national shame. It is normalising cricket and gambling and grooming our kids to bet all for immense profit flowing to a foreign private company.'

Cricket Australia chief executive Kevin Roberts was unavailable for comment.

In an interview with SEN Radio during the second Test in Adelaide he said he respected Mr Costello's view, but they could not suddenly terminate a commercial relationship.

'The reality is we have an existing commercial arrangement so whether we need that or don't need that there's an existing arrangement in place and we have an obligation to honour that.'

He also confirmed that Cricket Australia had recently declined an opportunity to take up a sponsorship deal with a betting agency for the Big Bash League.

'There is an opening for ethical betting'

In the UK, around 60 per cent of football teams in the Premier League and in the next tier down, the Championship, have gambling sponsorships on their shirts.

The British Labour party has a policy to ban these gambling sponsorships.

It's a policy supported by Mr Kenny.

'I didn't use to think that. But I have reluctantly come to that belief now, that it probably does normalise it to children.'

Stewart Kenny says the industry could cope with strong regulation and still prosper.

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'I still believe there is a huge future for the gambling industry to act responsibly and still make bucket loads of money,' he said.

'The industry is better off without the high addiction rates. It is not good for the long-term industry.

'I love betting and I believe there is an opening for ethical betting.'

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First posted December 08, 2019 06:23:40