gambling reform & gambling harm awareness
Two days on, and the media frenzy over “fingerprinting to play pokies” continues. If we ever needed proof that Clubs Australia can exert undue...
The man responsible for forcing the government’s hand on problem gambling, Andrew Wilkie, today delivered his maiden speech to the Federal Parliament.
I almost laughed out loud this morning when I trawled through the online papers and found that one Andrew Clennell had published articles in...
I nearly had to drop Burswood Casino into my Sneaky Bastards file today. I still might.
It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of the Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation. In fact, I’ve given them a fair whack on...
It’s official. The clubs of Australia are a law unto themselves. News has recently emerged of the Clubs Australia campaign being waged against the...
The Federal election of 2010 was one of the strangest and most evenly-balanced elections in Australian history. The counting of votes dragged on, and...
There’s been some coverage in the media recently about the Laurimar Tavern in Doreen, in the City of Whittlesea. Essentially, the Laurimar Tavern has...
I’ve been looking at Victoria’s regional caps recently… more specifically, how ineffective they are. The system of applying caps on pokie numbers based on...
It may have taken 17 days, on top of one of the shortest and strangest election campaigns I can remember… but we finally have...
I’ve written a fair bit about the Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation over the past few months. No surprises there, as they continue to...
Today’s Sydney Morning Herald carries a story about Clubs Australia’s response to Andrew Wilkie’s commitment to introducing a $1 “per-push” cap on poker machines....
Take a look through the pokie-related news stories of the past few days, and one name pops up nine times out of ten. Andrew...
I recently wrote about regional caps on pokies in Victoria, using the City of Hume as an example of how they work… or don’t...
One thing that has always puzzled me about pokies in Victoria is the idea of caps. Sure, as a concept it’s pretty simple; every...
