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Shaun Micallef wants to know why Australians love punting
Culture & SocietyABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)02 Jun, 11:45 amAtlasHour
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Shaun Micallef wants to know why Australians love punting

Australians love sports punting, but we're not very good at it. We lose more than eight billion dollars annually. Shaun Micallef has released a new series investigating our love of the punt and whether we might untangle our sport from our gambling. Featured: Shaun Micallef, filmmaker. To catch up on everything that’s making sports headlines recently, listen to more episodes of ABC Sport Daily,’ hosted by Patrick Stack on ABC listen or wherever you get your podcasts, and get in touch with them on social media via @abc_sport. In the episodes we will cover big sporting personalities and all sports, including cricket, soccer, F1, NBA, AFL, AFLW to NRLW & NRL news, to covering competitions like the Olympics, the World Cup, The Ashes, Grand Prix and Grand Finals and more.

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Australians love sports punting, but we're not very good at it.

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