Monthly Archive: November 2011

The alliance between Australia’s clubs and pubs, formed to resist poker machine reforms, is an uneasy one. The power in both camps is focused...

I’ve been banging on for a while now about the need for societal change with regards to gambling. While I strongly support regulatory changes...

There’s been a load of righteous indignation reverberating around the country lately, aimed at Woolworths and their ownership of poker machines. Rightfully so; they’ve...

This morning, Labor’s Harry Jenkins resigned from his position as Speaker of the House of Representatives. It was an unexpected move that has thrown...

Clubs Australia’s latest angle of attack with regards to poker machine reforms is the trial. Not just any old trial; we’re talking about a...

Corporate sponsorship is nothing new. Seems these days every team, group, company or organisation has one or more corporate sponsors lined up to throw...

People like to talk in absolutes. Forget shades of grey, we like to break things down into black and white and then talk in...

Poker machine manufacturers are constantly coming up with new games, looking for better ways to get players spending their cash on the pokies. Every...

Here’s a sobering thought. About a week and a half ago, I went through something of a crisis. It’s done with now, but at...

Everyone’s talking about gambling these days. Poker machines are at the middle of a war between the Federal government and just about everyone else,...

I’ve been getting a lot of questions about Scott Eagar’s article in this morning’s Sydney Morning Herald, so I thought I’d respond here. Saves...

Today, more than twelve months after gambling reform became a national political issue and decided the nature of our country’s government, the Federal Coalition...

It’s the first Tuesday in November. Melbourne Cup day. And as a Melburnian, I stopped along with so many others to watch the “great...