I reckon there are loads of similarities today with that remarkable period from the stockmarket peak in October 1987 through until Paul Keating’s “recession we had to have” in 1991, writes Stephen Mayne.
Holmes a court
Iemma ups pubs’ gambling while Russ flicks the pokies
Such irony. Two multi-millionaires, Russell Crowe and Peter Holmes a Court, move to ditch Souths Leagues Club’s 160 poker machines because they don’t think the social cost of the pokies is “appropriate” - most poker machine players are on social security, 30 to 50 per cent of pokies profits come gambling addicts.
