gambling reform & gambling harm awareness
This morning, on Radio National Breakfast on the ABC, Fran Kelly looked at the current situation with the proposed poker machine reforms. The show...
The latest media proclamation from Clubs Australia raises some serious questions about accountability and the standard of journalism in some parts of the media.
Two months ago, I filmed a vodcast for FAHCSIA, the Federal Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. FAHCSIA oversees the Federal...
The country these days seems obsessed with approval ratings. Our politicians, TV shows and newspapers are seemingly all driven by the need to pump...
It’s been a busy few days. On Thursday, Clubs Australia issued a media release stating that the Salvation Army had rejected mandatory pre-commitment (MPC)...
Reports in today’s papers are saying that the Salvation Army has pulled its support for the Federal Government’s mandatory pre-commitment proposal, instead backing a...
There have been a few notable battles waged in Victoria over the past couple of years. Unlike our northern neighbours, local councils in Victoria...
There are rallies being held across New South Wales at the moment, in registered clubs across the state, defending poker machines and rejecting the...
Julia Gillard’s tenure as Prime Minister has been brief and certainly turbulent. The mining tax, a price on carbon, health reforms, our clean energy...
The Victorian Commission for Gambling Reform recently released their EGM annual figures, without a lot of fanfare or fuss. These figures detail Victoria’s spending...
It’s been a few weeks since I wrote anything about the ClubsAustralia campaign against the proposed poker machine reforms. You know, the “It’s un-Australian”...
In my last blog post, I wrote about the reasons why good people do good things, and the reasons why I do what I...
I’ve been writing about gambling, in all its different guises and forms, for a while now. As a former pokie addict you could say...
A Richard Willingham article in Friday’s Age had me scrambling for my Flip Dictionary, which is best described as an intuitive thesaurus on steroids....
There is a common perception that the vast majority of poker machine players do not have a gambling problem; that poker machines are (in...
