So impressive how all the political commentators have realised that when Julia Gillard talks about not having the numbers in the Parliament to pass Andrew Wilkie’s pokies reforms, she means her own numbers, not the crossbench.
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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The political nous of a goldfish
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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: You do the Wilkie Pokie and you turn around
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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: What role did Kate Winslet play in the Concordia?
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Political snippets: Australia an exception in the debt stakes
Since the 2008–09 financial crisis, total debt has actually grown across the world’s ten largest mature economies is the finding of a study by the McKinsey Global Institute.
Wilkie’s pokies bet goes bust; Thomson enters fold
Crikey media wrap: Julia Gillard announced Andrew Wilkie’s proposed mandatory pre-commitment scheme was a loss on the weekend after it failed to get enough crossbench support. Meanwhile, embattled MP Craig Thomson has entered the pokies debate.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: How to end the pokies
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podcast Canberra Calling: The pre-commitment pokies podcast
Crikey’s Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane and Crikey editor Sophie Black discuss the hoopla surrounding the pokies debate following Andrew Wilkie’s meeting with Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Sunday.
Mayne: let’s have a pokies debate on maximum hourly losses
Why isn’t anyone in the pokies debate embracing the preferred simpler option in pushing for reductions in the maximum rate of hourly losses that pokies addicts can suffer?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Welching — err welshing — on Wilkie
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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Blow up the pokies
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Political snippets: Gillard’s pokie hokey-pokey
This morning’s media reports are far from clear about what Julia Gillard is planning to do about curbs on poker machines.
Worlds collide as UK parliamentary committee comes to Oz
I’ll be dining next week with five members of the UK parliamentary committee probing phone hacking.
‘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.
How to end pokies addictions
Former pokies addict Scott Eagar offers an alternative viewpoint to fighting problem gambling amongst the talk of pokies legislation and pre-commitment: kill the feature option.
Crikey Says: Crikey says: try some rollback reality
Tony Abbott’s latest rollback pledge? The mandatory pokies pre-commitment scheme. Here he is at an RSL club in Western Sydney last night…
Woolworths v Wesfarmers: good corporate citizens or irresponsible pokies pariahs
Pressure is mounting on the blue-blood directors of Woolworths to decide whether they are pillars of the community or pariahs.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: A new era of onshore processing
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God and gambling: the cardinal goes missing
Anglican Archbishop Peter Jensen has used his authority as a church leader to condemn clubs that benefit from pokie addicts. But what about his Catholic counterpart? asks Paul Barry.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Why the Labor brand is damaged
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Pokies lobby lets the cat out of the bag
Regardless of the merits of the Deutsch Bank report, the cat’s out of the bag now when it comes to the real cost of pokies reform, writes Charles Livingstone.
How do Catholic clubs defend their anti-pokies reform position?
The gambling industry is up in arms about the Gillard government’s proposed poker machine reforms. Clubs NSW is leading the charge but what about the Catholic clubs? asks gambling-reform blogger Tom Cummings.
$400 down, up the Nile without a paddle: life of a problem gambler
Reason tells you the sheer easy availability of high stakes, highly addictive poker machines comes at a cost too high for our society to bear. Why do we let this continue? asks Mr Denmore from The Failed Estate.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Time to take pokies out of Aussie culture
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The conflicts of interest muddying the anti-pokies campaign
As with any public debate, the challenge in the pokies reform will be getting participants to put all their cards on the table and declare these conflicts as they arise. Stephen Mayne declares their interests on the public’s behalf.
