- PHOTO TAKEN 03OCT02 - A patron enters a 24-hour gaming business which is attached to a suburban pub in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills in this photograph taken on October3, 2002. While industry advocates promote gambling as good, clean entertainment, the nation has begun to grapple with the most obvious side-effect , the addiction of about two percent of adults, or 300,000 people, to the money-losing games.