Category Archives: In the news
Tell Woolworths: Stop Gambling with Lives
The community action group GetUp have gathered hundreds of their members who are Woolworths shareholders to use their shareholder power to call an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) of the top 20 ASX company: Woolworths Ltd. If this EGM goes ahead, … Continue reading
Pokies reform looks set for a slow start
ACGT Media Release Australian Churches Gambling Taskforce Chair Reverend Tim Costello today acknowledged Andrew Wilkie’s decision to support the Government’s poker machine reform legislation. But he said the National Gambling Reform Bill 2012 represents a significant compromise on the original … Continue reading
Inquiry into the Prevention and Treatment of Problem Gambling
Hearings commenced this week in relation to the Senate Joint Select Committee on Gambling Reform’s Inquiry into the Prevention and Treatment of Problem Gambling. Mark Henley, Mark Zirnsak and Brad Halse attended on behalf of the Taskforce in Melbourne this … Continue reading
Statement on Poker Machine Reform
ACGT Statement The Australian Churches Gambling Taskforce brings together leaders of the major Christian churches in Australia and the heads of their social services arms nationally. The Taskforce is united by a commitment to reduce the very substantive harm caused … Continue reading
New England Churches back poker machine reform
ACGT Media Release Local Churches in Federal electorate of New England in New South Wales have given a thousand signed postcards to local federal member, Tony Windsor, in a show of solidarity for poker machine reform. New South Wales Churches … Continue reading
The twisted logic of pokie reform
Charles Livingstone, The Drum, ABC It’s been a few weeks since the Gillard Government backflipped on its agreement with Andrew Wilkie to introduce pokie reform. In retrospect, and with the benefit of hindsight, it seems that the main lesson to … Continue reading
Wilkie resists poker machine trial: Tim Costello
ABC Radio National: Breakfast ACGT Chair Tim Costello talks to Fran Kelly on Radio National Breakfast about the current poker machine reform situation Independent MP Andrew Wilkie says that he may oppose legislation enabling a trial of mandatory pre-commitment technology … Continue reading
Poker machines gulp $149,000 a day
Benjamin Millar, Andria Cozza, Melton Weekly MELTON gamblers are losing almost $149,000 a day in poker machines, according to new figures. Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation data shows the area’s gamblers poured more than $54 million into the … Continue reading
Brimbank pokie losses top $140 million
Benjamin Millar, Brimbank Weekly BRIMBANK gamblers cemented the area as the state’s biggest pokies loser last year, losing almost $400,000 a day. New figures from the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGLR) reveal the area’s gamblers lost more … Continue reading
Labor to release draft bill on pokies reform
Jessica Wright, Richard Willingham, The Sydney Morning Herald The first draft of the government’s poker machine reforms legislation will be released today and comes a day after local clubs in the ACT agreed, in principle, to host a year-long trial … Continue reading
