Anti Liquor & Gaming

UNIONS NSW CALLING FOR MASSIVE REDUCTION IN POKIES

The leading union movement in NSW has jumped into the debate against gambling by demanding a dramatic reduction in the number of EGMs in the state. Unions NSW represents a series of affiliated unions, spanning 600k members.   It issued a briefing paper to members stating that gambling has direct and indirect effects on workers […]

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NEW GOVT CAMPAIGN PUSHES DRINKING, NO DRIVING

The Transport Accident Commission has released a hard-hitting public service campaign aimed at discouraging people from driving after drinking at all, telling consumers to stop ‘kidding’ themselves. The new “Drink Driving: Stop Kidding Yourself” campaign by the Commission (TAC) in Victoria aims to encourage people to make the choice to separate drinking from driving –

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CORONER CALLS FOR STRICTER RSA AFTER DRINK-DRIVING DEATH

A Coroner’s report has called for stricter RSA compliance checks on venues after the drink-driving death of a young man served 25 beers over about seven hours. On the night of Friday, 30 April 2021, 25-year-old apprentice boilermaker Jethro Wolf Douglas attended a hotel on Tasmania’s west coast with a mate, having had a few

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NSW GOVT PLANS TO CRACK DOWN ON INDUSTRY COMMUNIQUE

The NSW government has criticised and plans to investigate the practise of venues getting a ‘heads up’ on pending random inspections, furthering the anti-gaming debate as Australians baulk at the cashless economy.  Documents by the NSW regulator, Liquor and Gaming, were tabled in parliament following requests by Independent MP Alex Greenwich. L&G’s written statement noted

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SYDNEY COUNCIL’S PUSH FOR EVEN GREATER GAMING REFORM

Inner West Council is working on lobbying the NSW State Government to apply even stricter reform to poker machine gambling at all gaming venues. Greens Councillor Liz Atkins and Independent Councillor Pauline Lockie are tabling the motion this week for Inner West Council (IWC) to petition both the Premier and Opposition Leader to introduce major

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ONLINE GAMING STILL ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

Anti-gaming sentiment continues to focus on potential harm at venues, while little attention is given to the growing spectre – and potential usurper – seen in illegal online gaming, despite the failure of its prohibition.  The Interactive Gambling Act of 2001 made it illegal to provide internet-based casino-style gambling, including poker machines, to Australians. The Australian

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PRESSURE RISES IN GAMING MACHINE SPIN

News has broken that ILGA’s data monitoring system has identified hundreds of what are dubbed “suspect transactions” at pubs and clubs, including outside of the cities, potentially boding a major reality check for authorities and industry. The information from the Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority (ILGA) has prompted the apparent realisation that criminal gangs are

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PUBS ‘NEXT FRONTIER FOR CRIME’: CLICK-BAIT MEDIA

The hospitality industry and Associations are again defending the role of pubs and clubs in society, in light of the latest round of naïve finger-pointing by click-bait media. According to Nine Entertainment (the merged Channel 9 and Fairfax Media) the pub and club industries are in the middle of a money-laundering “scandal”. Bolstering the argument

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GOVT TROTS OUT LATEST LOCKOUT REVIEW PR EXERCISE

The NSW government has announced its latest ‘review’ into Sydney’s stifling lockout laws, likely to continue the tradition of finding new reasons to justify misplaced reasoning that has cost the city and businesses tens of billions. The popularly termed ‘lockout’ laws refer to a fleet of restrictions on trade in hospitality businesses in the Sydney

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