NEW - Multimedia CD-ROM Kit for Secondary Schools - NEW
This kit has been produced with funding from the Foundation for Young Australians and the Uniting Church together with the kind assistance of the Deakin University School of Multimedia. The VHS video version of the kit upon which the multimedia kit is based was distributed to schools servicing a population of over 956,000 Victorians. Titled "You Figure It Out - Problem Gambling Today", the kit is specifically designed to prevent students becoming problem gamblers and to enable them to understand problem gambling in others - 11 screens."I think it is long overdue." - Rev Tim Costello speaking at the launch of the kit at Melbourne Girls College on 6 June 2001. If you wish to purchase a Kit (A$10 including postage within Australia) click on Order Form to display a printable order form which can be completed and forwarded with a cheque to Know the Odds Inc - details on the form.
IMPORTANT - Unbalanced reel gaming machines - IMPORTANT
Over four out of five problem gamblers in Victoria play gaming machines.  "Devilishly clever" internal design of gaming machines now explained in detail for the first time.  No person should play a gaming machine without reading this.  Information also valuable for treatment of gaming machine problem gamblers - 21 screens

Schools - educating about Problem Gambling
Philosophy for educating to prevent problem gambling hardships - effective education without conflict - avoiding "responsible gambling" teaching - "waterproofing" students against problem gambling - preparing students to cope in a world with problem gamblers - 14 screens
Exercises for Use in Schools - Nature of Gambling
Free cut and paste curriculum materials - exercises and teachers' notes - what is gambling? - what is a gambling operator? - why commercial gambling operators do not cheat - how the gambling operator makes a profit - random numbers and the law of averages - how much does it cost to gamble? - 65 screens
Exercises for Use in Schools - Problem Gambling
Free cut and paste curriculum materials - exercises and teachers' notes - two historical perspectives - wife's emotional problems - wife's financial problems - the husband of the problem gambling wife - female problem gamblers - 52 screens
Rev Tim Costello's Address at the Launch of KTO
"but such is the importance of the objectivity of this educational work, its freedom, its independence of spirit, its impartiality, that you have to be a realist to believe in those miracles and to say, this is necessary, this is what our young people deserve and what they need" - 6 screens
Rev Tim Costello's Address at the Launch of the "You Figure It Out" kit
"So, I think it is long overdue, I think it is fantastic that this initiative of a group of people who have been concerned citizens that they went actually against that overwhelming tide of what ultimately is propaganda. ... The truth of gambling is that so many people have their lives destroyed, their hopes destroyed because they have believed that tidal wave of propaganda. And therefore one word of truth, which the Know the Odds video is, neutral, factual, therefore you can't really argue with it; it is really powerful." - 5 screens
Information about Know the Odds Inc
Organisation's philosophy, patron and members, education and delivery
Definitions of Gambling
"Gambling" defined from different perspectives - 5 screens
Women and Problem Gambling - forum paper
A must for any female 15 - 17 y.o. student or person concerned about women's issues - 48 screens
The Grip of Gambling - forum paper
An account, taken from a diverse range of sources, of the process by which problem gambling occurs - useful for relatives of problem gamblers - 39 screens
Index of gambling news items Sept 97 to Dec 98
Simple but comprehensive index of Melbourne gambling-related items - big file!
Index of gambling news items Jan 99 to Dec 99
Simple but comprehensive index of Melbourne gambling-related items - big file!
Index of gambling news items Jan 2000 to September 2000
Simple but comprehensive index of Melbourne gambling-related items - big file!
Extracts from "The Compleat Gamester" by Charles Cotton 1674
Unaffected and penetrating observations about gamblers and gambling in Restoration England
Has Dealing with Alcohol Anything to Teach Us in Relation to Gambling
Paper by Professor David Hawks - parallels between the alcohol and gaming industries - application of harm minimisation strategies to "imprudent" gambling considered
Gambling Among Women - (Britain 1906)
Historical essay by JM Hogge MA printed in 1906 detailing gambling by British women and problems caused thereby
Links
Over 20 links to educational materials and sites.