Regular visitors to cyenne.com would have noticed that I occasionally move things around a little, looking for the best way to present the site...
my pokies spending tally
November 8, 2010
Tagged: problem gambling
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what is pre-commitment technology?
Over the past month, since Julia Gillard and Andrew Wilkie shook hands and the prospect of a minority Labor government became that much more...
November 7, 2010 -
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 -
truly tragic
It doesn’t feel right, to be writing about this in a blog. But some things need to be said, whether you want to broach...
October 18, 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 -
pokies? fasten your seatbelts!
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...
September 20, 2010 -
the pokies of whittlesea – strange things are afoot
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...
September 12, 2010 -
nsw olgr – making the vcgr look good
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...
September 2, 2010 -
clubs australia rubbishes wilkie’s $1 push… what a surprise
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....
August 31, 2010 -
wilkie vs the pokies
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...
August 30, 2010 -
gillard, abbott and the pokies of rooty hill
Last night saw an interesting moment in the current Federal election campaign. Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, live on stage at the Rooty Hill...
August 12, 2010 -
election 2010 – the silence is deafening
I’ve held off on commenting too much about this over the past week or so, but here we are. Two weeks out from the...
August 6, 2010 -
the pokies and public perception
It’s hard to imagine any other legal leisure activity that is as widely reviled and criticised as playing the pokies. The large percentage of...
August 6, 2010 -
woolworths – oh, the irony
I’m not one to laugh at the misfortune of others. Lord knows I’ve created enough misfortune in my own life for me to ever...
August 5, 2010 -
buck the pokie habit – by sue neales
The following article by Sue Neales was published in The Mercury on 24 July 2010. It is an exceptional analysis of the impact of...
August 3, 2010
