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	<title>Crikey &#187; pokies</title>
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		<title>With Roger Corbett, it’s a question of character</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/with-roger-corbett-it%e2%80%99s-a-question-of-character/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/09/with-roger-corbett-it%e2%80%99s-a-question-of-character/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Players]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Mathieson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fairfax board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fairfax media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roger corbett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Salvation Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woolworths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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?]]></description>
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		<title>Coles folds on pokies, will Woolies be next?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/11/coles-folds-on-pokies-will-woolies-be-next/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/11/coles-folds-on-pokies-will-woolies-be-next/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gambling industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Xenophon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wesfarmers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woolworths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 <b>Stephen Mayne</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Grimshaw v Ramsay</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/11/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-16/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/11/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-16/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gordon ramsay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tracy Grimshaw]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Crikey readers take sides in the great slanging match between the chef and the host.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/06/11/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-16/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pokies, clubs and local government</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/27/pokies-clubs-and-local-government/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/27/pokies-clubs-and-local-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 03:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Ellis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Monthly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Readers weigh in on pokies, local government, Bob Ellis and more.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Will Woolies give Labor $20m for pokies empire?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/26/will-woolies-give-labor-20m-for-pokies-empire/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/26/will-woolies-give-labor-20m-for-pokies-empire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 03:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Mayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Xenophon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Bendat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woolworths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With Labor now effectively declaring the pokies business was damaging its brand, Woolworths has come to a major fork in the road.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/05/26/will-woolies-give-labor-20m-for-pokies-empire/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Woollies, Mathiesons and the licence to print money</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/16/woollies-mathiesons-and-the-licence-to-print-money/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/16/woollies-mathiesons-and-the-licence-to-print-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tabcorp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woolworths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From a harm minimisation perspective, large scale pokie operations appear to be a big part of the problem, writes <b>Charles Livingston</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pokies stats reveal the &#8216;extreme capitalism&#8217; of Woolworths</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/09/pokies-stats-reveal-the-extreme-capitalism-of-woolworths/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/09/pokies-stats-reveal-the-extreme-capitalism-of-woolworths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woolworths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It really is time Woolies was forced to defend its position on pokies, writes <b>Stephen Mayne</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/09/pokies-stats-reveal-the-extreme-capitalism-of-woolworths/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd&#8217;s brilliant disaster diversion from China donations scandal</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/03/rudds-brilliant-disaster-diversion-from-china-donations-scandal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/03/rudds-brilliant-disaster-diversion-from-china-donations-scandal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian labor party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political donations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ALP remains the only major political party in the world that actually runs pokies operations to help finance its campaigns, writes <b>Stephen Mayne</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/03/rudds-brilliant-disaster-diversion-from-china-donations-scandal/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pokies moguls in Machiavellian Fairfax plot</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/05/pokies-moguls-in-machiavellian-fairfax-plot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/05/pokies-moguls-in-machiavellian-fairfax-plot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media-Arts-and-Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roger corbett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Walker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woolworths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Roger Corbett and Ron Walker lunched at Machiavelli’s in Sydney this week. Were they plotting the future of our most venerable media company? <b>Stephen Mayne</b> writes.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sydney police take slow look at homeless charity</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/30/sydney-police-take-slow-look-at-homeless-charity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/30/sydney-police-take-slow-look-at-homeless-charity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charity poker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nsw state government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[police commissioner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione is under pressure to produce the results of an inquiry into the dubious charity called Just Enough Faith Foundation, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/30/sydney-police-take-slow-look-at-homeless-charity/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>How big media omits Woolworths from damaging pokies yarns</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/06/how-big-media-omits-woolworths-from-damaging-pokies-yarns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/06/how-big-media-omits-woolworths-from-damaging-pokies-yarns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media-Arts-and-Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herald Sun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woolworths]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 <b>Stephen Mayne</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>We need to wind back the pub’s pokie addiction, too</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/22/we-need-to-wind-back-the-pubs-pokie-addiction-too/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/22/we-need-to-wind-back-the-pubs-pokie-addiction-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nsw state government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poker machines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is common for the industry to present itself as a folksy, struggling community level business, providing mostly harmless fun to the suburban working class. Unfortunately the reality is vastly different, writes <b>Charles Livingston</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/22/we-need-to-wind-back-the-pubs-pokie-addiction-too/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blow up the pokies&#8230; but not at the expense of the pub</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/19/blow-up-the-pokies-but-not-at-the-expense-of-the-pub/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/19/blow-up-the-pokies-but-not-at-the-expense-of-the-pub/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Fielding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Steve Fielding’s taxation schedule and his plans to modify poker machines would devastate pubs and clubs and wipe many of them out of existence, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tim Costello: Souths can&#8217;t be blamed for addiction to pokies</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/18/tim-costello-souths-cant-be-blamed-for-addiction-to-pokies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/18/tim-costello-souths-cant-be-blamed-for-addiction-to-pokies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media-Arts-and-Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gambling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[russell crowe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tim Costello]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If the NSW State Government Treasury can surmount all moral objections to reap huge financial rewards why would a football club deny itself? writes <b>Tim Costello</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/18/tim-costello-souths-cant-be-blamed-for-addiction-to-pokies/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pokies duopoly tumbles, Brumby holds all the aces</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/14/pokies-duopoly-tumbles-brumby-holds-all-the-aces/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/14/pokies-duopoly-tumbles-brumby-holds-all-the-aces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Brumby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tabcorp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tattersalls]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The total losses from John Brumby’s shock pokies announcement last Thursday have hit $3.3 billion, writes <b>Stephen Mayne</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/14/pokies-duopoly-tumbles-brumby-holds-all-the-aces/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Brumby’s unprecedented $2.7 billion wipe out</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/11/brumbys-unprecedented-27-billion-wipe-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/11/brumbys-unprecedented-27-billion-wipe-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Brumby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tabcorp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Never before has a government decision wiped out $2.7 billion of sharemarket value, writes <b>Stephen Mayne</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/11/brumbys-unprecedented-27-billion-wipe-out/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tips and rumours</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/10/tips-and-rumours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/04/10/tips-and-rumours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Sartor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW ALP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pokies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s strongly rumoured that Bruce Matheson and his business partner will be the party that receives the pokie licence today. This culminates several years of strategy with the Labor Government to achieve. It&#8217;s further rumoured this started with a need for critical mass, hence his partner selection and purchase of 1,000 hectares of land several [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Last drinks: our pubs in financial crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/31/last-drinks-our-pubs-in-financial-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/03/31/last-drinks-our-pubs-in-financial-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[banks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hotel industry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Major banks are about to disclose a major hit from their doomed loans to the hotel sector, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Iemma ups pubs’ gambling while Russ flicks the pokies</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/19/iemma-ups-pubs-gambling-while-russ-flicks-the-pokies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/19/iemma-ups-pubs-gambling-while-russ-flicks-the-pokies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description>
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		<title>Australia&#8217;s pokies: a tour by numbers</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/19/australias-pokies-a-tour-by-numbers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/19/australias-pokies-a-tour-by-numbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pokies probably won’t become a hot button issue for the upcoming election, but there has been a recent rise in bad press. Here are some facts and figures on the role of pokies as entertainment and revenue collectors. ]]></description>
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		<title>Labor and gambling &#8211; thick as thieves</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/11/labor-and-gambling-thick-as-thieves/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2007/09/11/labor-and-gambling-thick-as-thieves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd has struck a chord with his anti-pokies stance but the facts are the Labor Party is more responsible for Australians being the world's biggest gamblers than anyone else.]]></description>
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