Addressing Gambling Misuse: A Kāupapa Wahine Maori Education and Health Intervention

• In Event: Mana ’Ulu: Indigenous Action—Feeding Our Communities, Feeding Families

Abstract

This study was concerned with the health implications of new forms of gambling such as casinos, pokie machines and internet gambling for Māori women and their families in Auckland and the Bay of Plenty region of Aotearoa (New Zealand). It set out to discover what culturally appropriate services were available and the extent to which Māori women gamblers were utilising them. The literature documenting Māori perceptions of gambling shows that Māori women gamblers and their partner/whānau members and gambling service providers have been little studied previously.

Author

• Laurie Elena Morrison, Auckland University of Technology