Monthly Archive: April 2012

I came across a couple of articles during the week that made me stop and think. The first was a relatively innocuous article in...

As poker machine reform roars back onto the national agenda, an unexpected solution gathers momentum.

Anglicare Tasmania was in the news recently as a result of their idea to remove chairs from gaming rooms, or poker machine venues. The...

Much talk has been made over many months of the cost of reforms for poker machines. The industry has placed a price tag of...

Jackpots are synonymous with poker machines. I don’t believe there’s a poker machine room in the country that doesn’t offer jackpots; clubs, pubs or...

Around six weeks ago, Woolworths and Coles hit the headlines when it was revealed that their receipts were promoting a Facebook gambling application.

Dear readers, One of the reasons I started Cyenne almost two years ago was because, having decided to start writing about gambling addiction and...

Teach your children well Their father’s hell will slowly go by… A follow-up to my response to Clubs Australia’s recent call for gambling education...

Having successfully seen off the threat of mandatory pre-commitment, Clubs Australia have turned their attention to the question of image. They’re desperate to been...

Earlier this year, the Victorian state government introduced legislation covering signage for poker machine venues. Labelled “plain packaging for pokies”, the new rules are...

St Kilda FC may not be the only AFL club to count a sports betting company amongst its sponsors (almost half of the teams...

Well, it finally happened. More than two months after the Gillard/Wilkie agreement broke down under the strain of relentless industry campaigning, and almost a...