Over the past month, since Julia Gillard and Andrew Wilkie shook hands and the prospect of a minority Labor government became that much more...
Tagged: pre-commitment
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November 7, 2010
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xenophon’s speech to the gaming executive summit
With the AFL season behind us, Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium has become available for other uses. One of these took place recently when the Gaming...
October 23, 2010 -
a letter from peter newell – the lies continue
A regular reader contacted me recently to alert me to a letter she’d come across in the Shoalhaven ExServicemens Club newsletter. This letter, tucked...
October 15, 2010 -
a letter from the clubs
It’s been a little quiet on the news front over the past few days, especially after the club-driven frenzy over fingerprinting and pre-commitment technology....
October 13, 2010 -
clubs australia’s fingerprints are all over this
Two days on, and the media frenzy over “fingerprinting to play pokies” continues. If we ever needed proof that Clubs Australia can exert undue...
October 2, 2010 -
‘fingerprinting’ scare campaign is a beatup
I almost laughed out loud this morning when I trawled through the online papers and found that one Andrew Clennell had published articles in...
September 30, 2010 -
the burswood pokies sidestep
I nearly had to drop Burswood Casino into my Sneaky Bastards file today. I still might.
September 29, 2010 -
clubs – protecting their pokies, not their patrons
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...
September 26, 2010 -
election 2010- pokie reform at last!
It may have taken 17 days, on top of one of the shortest and strangest election campaigns I can remember… but we finally have...
September 8, 2010