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Topic: poker machines

Can you sue pokie manufacturers for your losses? Maurice Blackburn’s big gamble

Australia

Sep 07, 2016

8

Pokies and neoliberalism

Comments, corrections, clarifications and cock-ups

Apr 28, 2016

5

Tim Costello: RSLs that use con job pokies dishonour the Anzacs

Culture

Apr 26, 2016

4

The dark truth about Australia's addiction to poker machines is exposed in a new ABC documentary.

‘Like opium dens’: pokies’ toll laid bare

Companies

Oct 19, 2015

11

Australia’s love affair with pokies

Sport

Aug 11, 2015

Unlike Australia, the United States has largely been sheltered from the pervasive gambling industry. But that's changing, and Americans are asking if it's for the worse.

America, a land largely free of pokies — but that’s changing

North America

Nov 11, 2013

Remember when RSL clubs didn't house dozens of poker machines? It's time to re-examine the RSL-pokies nexus, writes historian and researcher <b>Dr Jennifer Cornwall</b>.

Raise a beer to the RSL clubs — before the pokies came

Australia

Apr 24, 2013

7

Not all is at it seems in the stories about carbon price compensation being wasted on pokies. There's simply no evidence to support the various media claims.

Carbon compo being fed into pokies? Nothing but a beat-up

Federal

Jul 19, 2012

36

Whoever would have thought the almighty US Republican Party would end up having a rich kid from Toorak as its most powerful kingmaker, even to the point of publicly lecturing an endorsed presidential candidate about staff selection on Twitter.

Mayne: Woolies, Rupert, Packer play corporate democracy game

Australia

Jul 05, 2012

7

After James Packer blazed the trail and demonstrated how a full-on media campaign, combined with the calling of an EGM, can destabilise a public company, GetUp! has followed in his footsteps

GetUp! hits Woolies with EGM tactic from Packer playbook

Companies

Jun 26, 2012

3

About $9.7 billion was lost on pokies in 2010-11, and about $180 million was claimed by pokie operators as community benefit -- just 1.9% of the total of losses. <b>Charles Livingstone</b> reports on his findings.

Pokies: regressive, harmful and they never really pay out

Australia

Apr 17, 2012

13

Pokies reform appears to have shifted slightly in the government's and Andrew Wilkie's favour, mainly because opponents have overplayed their hands.

When it comes to pokies, beware of who you stand with

Companies

Oct 28, 2011

119

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