Hannah Pitt

1 month ago | theconversation.com | Hannah Pitt |Grace Arnot |Samantha Thomas |Simone McCarthy

Do something about it before it gets worse. This was a response from a 16-year-old boy in one of our recent studies when asked what he would say to the prime minister about gambling in Australia. This response is not uncommon. Read more: Gambling in Australia: how bad is the problem, who gets harmed most and where may we be heading?

1 month ago | medicalxpress.com | Simone McCarthy |Hannah Pitt |Samantha Thomas

Whatever the code, whatever the season, Australian sports fans are bombarded with gambling ads. Drawing on Australians' passion, loyalty and pride for sport, the devastating health and social consequences of gambling—including financial stress, homelessness, family violence, and mental health issues—are largely sidelined. Instead, ads continue to normalize gambling, encouraging punters to embrace mateship and "have a crack" on gambling apps.

1 month ago | theconversation.com | Simone McCarthy |Hannah Pitt |Samantha Thomas

Whatever the code, whatever the season, Australian sports fans are bombarded with gambling ads. Drawing on Australians’ passion, loyalty and pride for sport, the devastating health and social consequences of gambling – including financial stress, homelessness, family violence, and mental health issues – are largely sidelined. Instead, ads continue to normalise gambling, encouraging punters to embrace mateship and “have a crack” on gambling apps.

Nov 24, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Hannah Pitt

ABSTRACTIntimacy suggests familiar, close-up knowing, resulting in emotional attachment to another. Such affective encounters occur between domestic gardeners and their plants, but what about commercial horticulture? Anna Tsing suggests not, characterizing plantationocene agribusiness as production without the love (2012).

Nov 30, 2023 | rhg.com | Kate Larsen |Hannah Pitt |Mahmoud Mobir |Shweta Movalia

Eight years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the international community will gather at COP28 in Dubai and conclude the first Global Stocktake to gauge progress in limiting global temperature increases to well below 2°C  above pre-industrial levels. The need to understand what kind of climate future the world is on track for has become increasingly important not just for diplomats and policymakers, but to almost every actor of the global economy.