Like John Howard, Shane Stone, the ex-Country Liberal Party chief minister of the Northern Territory, is no bleeding heart. But Stone has now joined the former prime minister’s call for political leaders to introduce stricter measures to curb the harms poker machines are inflicting on indigenous communities.
Two weeks ago, Howard described the proliferation of the pokies in Australia as a “grave social evil”. The comments came in response to an investigation by The Australian Financial Review which revealed the number of poker machines in Alice Springs had risen by 184 over the past four years.
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