Nick Xenophon

HURLEYS CELEBRATE NO “X” WITH NEW SA PREMIER MARSHALL

Posted on March 19th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
People and pubs across South Australia are celebrating a comfortable win by the Liberal party at the weekend’s State election, with a resounding “no” to Nick Xenophon’s anti-pokies SA Best party. In the aftermath of the Tasmanian election, just two

LITMUS TEST FOR SA BEST ON POKIES’ ELECTION

Posted on February 21st, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
Ahead of the State election on 17 March, Nick Xenophon’s all-singing, all-dancing SA Best party has released its new watered-down approach to poker machine reform with a politicised policy set to please nobody. After two decades and three parties, Xenophon’s

PUBS PLEA FOR POKIES AS CLUBS UNDER SCRUTINY

Posted on June 26th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
As Clubs in Canberra come under increasing scrutiny and pollies call for ‘victim’ compensation, pubs are calling for a thin slice of the revenue, denied a level playing field. The ACT currently has 4,985 poker machines, but the Territory’s government