By Amy Sheehan When Anna Bardsley was in her 40s, she used to catch up with her girlfriends at the pub a few times a year, which would include “a flutter” in the poker machine room. “Nobody ever spent any more than $20 and we laughed a lot. It was seemingly harmless,” says the now 77-year-old from Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, the traditional lands of the Wadawurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples.
“I had no idea at the time that I was engaging …
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