Chart showing Australia's expenditure on gambling per adult, 1995-96 to 2016-17 in nominal dollars (ie. not adjusted for inflation). Gaming is where we tend to lose most of our money ($1,020 per adult in 2016-17), but this basically includes all forms of gambling other than racing and sports betting (eg. lotteries, electronic gaming machines, casinos, and even bingo). The amount we lose on sports betting has started to increase in the last decade.