Lisa Martin, Sydney Morning Herald
A cashed-up alliance of rival footy codes has joined Clubs Australia’s fight against the federal government’s poker machine reforms in a move anti-gambling campaigners are labelling a disgrace.
During grand final week the AFL and NRL are planning to run television advertisements against mandatory pre-commitment technology for high-intensity pokies.
AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou and individual club presidents are scheduled to meet on Monday to map out campaign strategies.
Tasmanian independent MP Andrew Wilkie says he’s disappointed with the AFL and the NRL and has revealed he faces potential legal action from Clubs Australia and Clubs NSW over comments he made on the pokies reform issue.
“I would have thought the AFL would have taken a leadership role,” Mr Wilkie told reporters in Hobart today.
Continue reading at The Sydney Morning Herald here: Codes set aside rivalries to fight pokie reforms.
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