Is pokie reform a seat-changer?
In Yet Another ALP Leadership Speculation Article, Michelle Grattan claims that some “nervous ALP backbenchers” want to go back to Rudd, abandon pokie reform, and therefore immediately run to an early election which Labor will inevitably lose but will preserve [...]
The AFL, the pokies, and viability
According to Jeff Kennett mandatory precommitment technology will threaten the viability of some clubs, and threaten the survival of the code”. Rubbish.
Giving away the pokies?
If you take the figures in the Victorian Auditor-General’s report on the auction of pokie licenses as gospel, it’s arguably the most single most financially costly mistake the Bracks-Brumby government made. The report estimates that a fair market value for [...]
Shock horror -pensioners play pokies!
If you don’t feel panicked enough by the flu outbreak in Mexico, how about a good old moral panic on top? Apparently, pokie revenues are up, purportedly on the back of the Government’s stimulus package: The warning comes as the [...]
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