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?
Gambling
My tips for tomorrow: don’t drink and don’t bet
Getting ready for tomorrow’s Melbourne Cup? Then don’t follow TP Maher’s example, as he reflects on the drinking, gambling and also the horses from Saturday’s Derby Day.
How Crown stacks the odds in its favour
When Crown Casino management have been missing their main floor revenue targets, they have been systematically changing the rules on table games in their favour, writes Mark Cridland.
Gittins: Why can’t governments make us happy too?
What is the role of government? Pollies exist to pursue our national economic growth, but our wellbeing should exist beyond a material sense. Government need to focus on social issues like problem gambling, writes Ross Gittins.
Which bank will be next to blow?
It’s the newest spectator sport for the finance industry: predicting which bank will go down the gurgler next. The Daily Beast attends to all your bookmaking needs with odds for all the big banks.
When sports pundits are also punters
In a recent survey of sports writers, 40% of those polled admitted to betting on sports — though only 5% fessed up to taking a punt on the specific sport they cover. Are they gambling with their objectivity?
Political snippets: Labor cash cows under investigation
Labor cash cows under investigation, another Murdoch paper shuts down and what’s happening with school rankings?
Communists take a gamble
Over ten million Australians couldn’t resist having a crack at this week’s $106m Oz Lotto jackpot — even the Communist Party of Australia took a punt. But they’re not the first comrades to consider funding the downfall of capitalism with a gamble, explains Brett Evans.
Siberian Las Vegas?
The Kremlin is shutting down casinos across Russia, leaving thousands unemployed and giving proprietors one option: relocation to the furthest reaches of the republic, such as Siberia.
Betting closes on Britain’s next poet laureate
Question remains: is there anything the Brits won’t bet on?
Fear and loathing in Loss Vegas
If James Packer was harbouring any remote thoughts about a move back to Nevada, he’d be wiser hedging his bets.
Tabcorp masquerades unsecured debt as “bonds”
Oh, what a credit crunch will do, writes Andrew W Scott.
Pokies stats reveal the ‘extreme capitalism’ of Woolworths
It really is time Woolies was forced to defend its position on pokies, writes Stephen Mayne.
Tim Costello: Souths can’t be blamed for addiction to pokies
If the NSW State Government Treasury can surmount all moral objections to reap huge financial rewards why would a football club deny itself? writes Tim Costello.
Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks
Meaty snippets from the home of government plus the daily reality check and the pick of other people’s political coverage. Richard Farmer writes.
