gambling reform & gambling harm awareness
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...
For months now, a war has been waged in the media about poker machines and pre-commitment. It’s been fourteen months since the Gillard/Wilkie agreement...
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...
Listen up. I’m only going to say this once.
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...
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock this week, you’d know that James Packer has entered the debate over the Gillard government’s poker machine...
I’ve been writing about problem gambling and poker machines for a while now. I’ve been writing about the government’s proposed reforms since Andrew Wilkie...
