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.
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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.
