Julia Gillard and responsible minister Jenny Macklin, the two Victorian ladies of the Left, seemed genuinely committed to pokies reform before this week’s confusing antics.
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‘Imbecile’ pokies activist funds full-page newspaper ad
Despite the Baillieu government’s reluctance to tackle serious pokies reform, Victoria is central to the campaign for change and Paul Bendat’s full-page ad is a sign of what is to come for Victorian Liberals.
News Ltd, Clubs and NRL v imaginary AFL anti-pokies campaign
The pokies debate has exploded over the past 24 hours after Clubs NSW used its influence over the NRL to try and impose its campaign against Andrew Wilkie’s reform agenda on the AFL’s grand final week program.
Has Four Corners fallen for the gambling industry’s tactics?
Like with tobacco reform, there are numerous Liberal MPs who privately agree with their conservative allies that something has got to be done on pokies reform. But tonight’s Four Corners missed the point.
Rudd’s choice: move on pokies or risk losing Tanner
Stand by for a strong campaign backing an independent anti-pokies candidate in Lindsay Tanner’s seat of Melbourne, where pokies damage to live music is a hot issue and Tanner only holds the seat by 4.71%.
The ‘three imbeciles’ call a Woolies EGM to remove chairman
Woolworths CEO Roger Corbett may be regretting getting into bed with pokies billionaire Bruce Mathieson, after his comments on ABC radio have landed both men in hot water.
Brumby’s special hardware deals for pokies giant
No company has benefited more from the Victorian Labor Government than Australia’s biggest pokies operator, Woolworths, which just loves Brumby’s new gaming industry rules.
Woolworths reeling, when will they fold on pokies?
Never before have Woolworths chairman James Strong and CEO Michael Luscombe been forced to engage in such detail about their iniquitous 12,000-strong pokies operation.
With Roger Corbett, it’s a question of character
Roger Corbett’s Christian values didn’t appear to count for much when the opportunity presented for Woolies to leap into the pokies business. Why is the anti-gambling Salvation Army associated with someone who actively supports pokies?
Coles folds on pokies, will Woolies be next?
Those nice men from Wesfarmers, sitting in pokies-free Perth, have wilted in the face of a strong campaign over kids in venues and committed to spend millions cleaning up their gambling venues, writes Stephen Mayne.
Will Woolies give Labor $20m for pokies empire?
With Labor now effectively declaring the pokies business was damaging its brand, Woolworths has come to a major fork in the road.
Pokies moguls in Machiavellian Fairfax plot
Roger Corbett and Ron Walker lunched at Machiavelli’s in Sydney this week. Were they plotting the future of our most venerable media company? Stephen Mayne writes.
How big media omits Woolworths from damaging pokies yarns
Melissa Fyfe had a cracking page one story in The Sunday Age yesterday revealing the rorting of so-called community benefit payments by various AFL clubs at their pokies venues, writes Stephen Mayne.
Are Paul Armstrong’s days at The West Australian numbered?
The latest West Australian rumour doing the rounds in Perth is that controversial editor Paul Armstrong’s days at the paper are numbered.
C’mon ya rich bastards, cough up — Jane still doing…
The Ian Potter Foundation. The grants approved for 2004-05 totalled $4,538,000 and total payments for the year were $5,890,000. Kerry Packer. What we do know: Packer donated $30 million to cancer research in the states, $10 million to the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Sydney and $2.5 million to the NSW Ambulance Service ensuring every […]
