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Pokie News Crown Casino chief Rowen Craigie is looking to boost Australia’s tourism sector with a call to invest more money into airports, hotels and speeding up the visa application process. It all falls into his plans to capitalise on the lucrative Asian gambling demographic by competing with such leaders as Singapore and Macau for ...

Pokie News It has been 18 months in the making and it seems that no one is intending to back down at any point soon as the struggle for new pokies at Clayton’s L’Unico Hotel continues in full force. The hotel in question has been pushing for the approval of seven new pokies machines but so far the Monash Council has stood firmly ...

Pokie News The fight to implement pre-commitment on pokies has taken an interesting turn as a new plan has been put into action to provide gamblers with loyalty cards that carry out this exact function. The primary objective here is to allow gamblers to set their own betting limits on their pokies losses by using a loyalty card, similar ...

Pokie News Several NSW venues have come under fire for violating a shutdown period enforced by the Office of Liquor, Gaming and Racing. During a compulsory three-hour shutdown period, several pokies venues in Sydney, as well as one in Wollongong and one in Newcastle, were found to be operating illegally. The venues in question were found ...

Pokie News The matter of pokies guidelines is once again up for discussion by the Ballarat Council and a gaming policy panel has been consulted for suggestions and recommendations for the city’s planning laws. The main concern of the council is that current pokies regulations are lacking, especially those regarding where the gaming ...

Pokie News The pokies situation in Ballarat is once again being reviewed by the City Council and some changes may soon be made. More specifically, the council is considering making the Bridge Mall a pokie-free zone, while redirecting the operation of pokies to the central business district, where new pokies machine applications may be ...

Pokie News One way or another, gambling reforms have been put into practise with varying degrees of success but this has not necessarily been good news for the gambling companies. One group in particular that has suffered is Tabcorp, which has recorded a large loss in its profits over the last financial year. However, its struggle has ...

Pokie News James Packer may be a giant in the Australian gaming industry but he is not the only one submitting large-scale casino proposals and there are notable investors from overseas who also have their eyes on some prime gambling real estate. The latest proposal takes the form of a $4.2 billion resort slated for Northern Queensland ...

Pokie News While pokies spending remains a serious issue throughout Australia, the situation does indeed seem to be improving in certain places and it has been revealed that in Latrobe Valley, the amount spent by gamblers on pokies in the last financial year was around $5 million lower than the previous year. Gambling reforms have been ...

Pokie News An attempt by the Ballarat City Council to lower the pokies cap of 663 machines has been ruled out by the state government. Councillors Des Hudson and Belinda Coates are to have a meeting with Gaming Regulation Minister Edward O’Donohue in Melbourne this week in order to discuss the matter of reducing the cap in order to ...