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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Time to take pokies out of Aussie culture
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.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Politics the art of the possible
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Form guide to the pokies lobbying effort
Impending pokies legislation has sparked a race to get the Australian public onside. So who’ll take out the big one? Tom Cowie presents the Poker Machines Pre-Commitment Plate.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The News is rebranding news
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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The first rule of journalism
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Pokies reform: Clubs Australia, Deutsche Bank and Peter Garrett
The introduction of a pre-commitment is highlighted by claims and counter-claims, writes Charles Livingstone, from the Department of Health Social Science, Monash University.
Political snippets: Taxing addicts to overpay footballers
Rugby league clubs are joining in the campaign against federal government attempts to limit the losses of those unfortunate few addicted to playing poker machine.
Why are Victorian ratepayers paying Graham Richardson?
After being paid millions by the Packer family empire since he quit federal Parliament in 1994, Labor Party fixer Graham Richardson has admitted his retainer came to an end about 12 months ago.
Last Bets: states smash sports betting but no cold turkey on pokies
It’s no wonder premiers would prefer to gag Tony Greig and Richie Benaud than do anything that might impact their AAA-credit ratings.
James Packer shows off his Labor Right pulling power
The James Packer ALP advisory team of Graham Richardson, Karl Bitar and former Kim Beazley chief-of-staff Gary O’Neill, today have played one of their trump cards in the campaign to head off Andrew Wilkie’s pokies reform agenda.
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.
Last Bets: Angry Anderson the new big thing in pokies
Poker machine themes are a very important part in attracting punters to pubs and clubs around the country. The big manufacturers know this, and are spending millions of dollars each year mastering their brands. Even Angry Anderson is on board.
Last Bets: which brand of poker machine are you?
Poker machine themes play an important part in conditioning players to gamble and there are millions of dollars being invested by the big companies every year to find the next big thing. So which brand of machine suits you?
Last Bets: QHA’s pokies reforms are ‘tobacco industry tactics’
There are many tactics that the gambling industry resorts to in defence of its profits including misleading the public through misinformation campaigns, writes Angela Rintoul, Claire Tobin, Darshini Ayton and Charles Livingstone, of Monash University’s Department of Health Social Science.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Carbon tax, celebrities and climate change
Correction: Brenden Hills, The Sunday Telegraph, writes: Re. “Tips and rumours” (yesterday, item 8). Crikey published: “The co-author of the Sunday Telegraph’s “Carbon” Cate Blanchett beat-up, Brenden Hills, is fondly remembered by Labor advisers for an amusing performance during the NSW state election campaign. Spies say Hills ventured down to Pitt Street’s Civic Hotel one […]
Mental health, social justice – and a program that works
The first report of the Parliamentary Joint Select Committee on gambling reform has recommended a ‘hybrid’ approach to the reform of poker machine regulation, writes Dr Charles Livingston.
Law: Why Clubs Australia loves Asians
The new “It’s un-Australian” campaign website funded by Clubs Australia to fight pokies laws comes translated in Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean. Why are Asian communities so caught up in gambling and will this campaign slow it down? Benjamin Law investigates.
Political snippets: Luna Park an appropriate location
Laughter is the best policy when you hear a politician talking about dole bludgers even when they disguise their meaning with different words as Prime Minister Julia Gillard did last night.
Political snippets: Labor’s opportunity to curb pokies
The Labor Party has a perfect opportunity in Canberra to demonstrate that it really does believe in the need to curb the problem of addiction to poker machine.
Singo hits the jackpot with pro-pokies punting licence campaign
Millionaire ad man John Singleton’s wallet might be lighter after shouting the bar after a recent Group One victory at Rosehill, but the lion’s share he’ll bank of this morning’s $20 million “Its [sic] un-Australian” campaign on behalf of the Australian Hotels Association and Clubs Australia is almost certain to cure the hangover.
The Wilkie pokies walk clause — it’s compulsory pre-commitment
There is a massive difference between voluntary and compulsory pre-commitment. If Gillard can’t get Woolies, Clubs NSW and the states over the line on a compulsory system then Wilkie will withdraw his support for the government.
