In advance of Melbourne Cup Day Áine speaks with Kate Seselja, Founder of the Hope Project, Co-Chair Canberra Gambling Reform Alliance, Co-Chair of GHLEE-Gambling Harm Lived Experience Experts, Recovery Coach, Community Educator andPublic Speaker, on the impact of gambling addiction and harm.Kate established the Hope Project in 2015 to help others in the community who were struggling with gambling addiction.  Using her own lived experience, Kate speaks truth to power.  As an advocate and recovery coach she works to free others from the shame and stigma that can be an outcome of gambling addiction. In her advocacy work she in involved across a number of organisations and advocacy groups at both the state at national level to lobby for systemic change to legislation, gambling reform including putting safeguards around gambling products, holding the gambling industry to account, and for increasedfunding for education and support for those living with, and at risk of gambling harm.

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