gambling reform & gambling harm awareness
“Experimental technology”. It’s the latest catch-phrase of choice for the Clubs industry in their ongoing campaign to shoot down the Gillard government’s poker machine...
The recently-leaked Media Relations guide from Clubs Queensland contains a number of tips and strategies for dealing with the media. On page two, there...
We have an odd approach to gambling legislation in Victoria. Actually, no. “Odd” doesn’t cut it. Bizarre? Misguided? Completely whacked out? Yes, that’s closer.
The Australian media has been buzzing over the past 24 hours with the news that the Greens had weighed in on the issue of...
Forty million dollars. Roll that figure around in your head for a moment. Can you grasp it? It’s a hell of a sum. Far...
By now, it should come as no surprise to anyone that industry-driven opposition to the Federal government’s proposed poker machine reforms is strongest in...
Addiction is, by and large, a secretive thing. When you have an addiction you hide it, concealing both the problem and the effects from...
The clubs industry’s ongoing campaign to oppose poker machine reforms is fast becoming little more than slapstick comedy. It seems that no matter what...
When I wrote two days ago about NSW’s registered Catholic clubs, and their support for the “It’s Un-Australian” campaign opposing poker machine reforms, I...
In the past couple of weeks Andrew Bolt (following his guilty verdict) declared that free speech in Australia, if not dead, was at least...
I just know I’m going to cop flak for this one… but it’s been bothering me for a while. The gambling industry is up...
So Angry Anderson has announced his intention to enter politics. I guess it was only a matter of time.
The City of Greater Bendigo is hoping for a case of second-time-lucky, as once more their commitment to keeping more pokies out of Bendigo...
It’s well known that the Murdoch press has the Gillard government in its sights. Just about everything they publish, apart from the obligatory pages...
So Clubs Australia, along with their sidekick the AHA, have moved into the second phase of their campaign against the proposed poker machine reforms....
