Quentin Beresford
Award Winning Author
Latest Release
Hooked (2025)
How did Big Gambling become too big to fail and too powerful to adequately regulate?
Australians lose around $32 billion on legal forms of gambling each year, the most of any country in the world, while the industry rakes in $244 billion through poker machines, lotteries, casinos and the exponential rise in sports betting.
In Hooked, Quentin Beresford explores how gambling expanded from a highly restricted recreational activity to a mega industry. He asks, what's the balance between entertainment and social harm?
What does the crisis reveal about the troubling intersection between business and politics? And, finally, how can the gambling industry be reined in?
With a cast of questionable characters, iconic corporate brands, eye-watering greed, political subterfuge and the many state.
Current Project
Quentin Beresford's latest project deals with whistleblowers, the impact they have made to Australian society over the past two decades and why the political system has failed to update existing inadequate protections for them.
I can be contacted on qberesf0@gmail.com
Without fear or favour, Beresford has painted a complex and compelling picture of something rotten at the heart of modern Australia. Hooked is an invaluable contribution to Australia's necessary reckoning with our national addiction.
Stuart Kells
Australian Book review
Reviews
Quentin Beresford has done a massive job here. He's pulled together research, stats, and facts into one gripping and terrifying picture.
Theresa Smith
Theresa Smith Writes
... well researched .... readable ... A fascinating thought-provoking book.
Canberra Daily
Hooked is a morbidly addictive read. Using public record investigative journalism and critical interviews across the gambling, criminal and government sectors, author Quentin Beresford hasn’t just taken us ‘inside the murky world of Australia’s gambling industry’, he’s revealed that our entire democracy is actively and aggressively involved, directly and indirectly, in gambling exploitation and crime
Tasmanian Times
When you read Hooked , you will probably vaguely remember many of the events it describes, but it still takes a great researcher to put it all together for the reader. Beresford has done this for every state of Australia.
Brian Morgan,
Hearsay,
The Bar Association of Queensland.
University of Sydney
Wounded Country is an evocative invocation of the need for Australia to examination with the environment
Jesssica Urwin
Australian National University
About Quentin
Author of more than a dozen books, Quentin is a multi-award winning non-fiction writer. Adopting a narrative style, he tells compelling stories about contentious, contemporary issues setting them in their historical, political and social context. He has written about environmental disasters, environmental campaigns, political corruption, Indigenous rights, corporate failures and biographies of notable public figures...
