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Pokie News While the bid for pre-commitment has not been looking good lately, it does have its fair share of support and the most recent group to get behind it are the Greens. The idea comes from Labor’s pokies machine reform and has so far struggled to get off the ground, but it could happen yet. Originally, reform campaigner Andrew ...

Pokie News With New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell giving James Packer the green light to go ahead with his billion dollar hotel in Sydney, which will include a new second casino for the city, the question of just how much the government cares about problem gambling is once again being raised by concerned academics and anti-pokies ...

Pokie News It looks as though James Packer’s billion dollar hotel and casino is to go ahead, as the first stage of government approvals required to embark on such an ambitious venture has been passed. While the complex is primarily to be a hotel, a notable feature in Packer’s plans is to include a VIP gambling area. Currently there is ...

Pokie News Gaming giants Tatts Group may have encountered a potentially major setback earlier this year when the Victoria government did not renew their pokies license and they were forced to part ways with TabCorp but if the figures for the year are anything to go by, both groups are surviving on their own and still drawing in an ...

Pokie News Billionaire James Packer has big plans for Sydney and it looks very likely that he will get his way. His latest business venture takes the form of a luxury hotel by the harbour in Barangaroo and while it will cost him $1 billion to have the gargantuan complex constructed, it will not cost the state a single cent. As a result, ...

Pokie News By law every poker machine venue in the state is required to take various measures in order to promote responsible gambling among its visitors but there is one part of the country that is lagging in this respect. A report has shown that in Victoria, the collective amount spent by all the pokie clubs in order to help gamblers is ...

Pokie News Activist group GetUp! Has turned its attention to the pokies situation, specifically targeting supermarket chain Woolworths because of its stake in the poker machine business. In order to get their views across, they are extending their fight to the supermarket checkout in the form of thousands of personally written letters. ...

Pokie News Gambling losses in Victoria have risen to an unbelievable $15 million a day, which works out to a record $625,000 being gambled away every hour. This is the highest that gambling losses have ever been, which is no mean feat considering the total amount lost last year was more than $5.4 billion, of which $1.5 billion were spent ...

Pokie News Gambling addiction is a serious enough problem at the best of times but in some more extreme cases it can get to the point where those affected will go so far as to harm others in order to fund their habits. Sometimes it stops at borrowing money but this week has found one gambler guilty of really crossing the line by stealing ...

Pokie News It has been a big year for poker machines, especially in the last few months as the August quarter of 2026 has seen the public increase the already monumental amount of money they are putting into them. In the last three months, gamblers have collectively poured a staggering $2.9 billion into pokies, a significant increase ...