Gambling
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Social media’s too risky for kids but gambling’s OK? PM’s each-way bet stinks
Apparently, the social licence of the betting companies that deluge us with 1 million ads a year isn’t problematic for the government.
- by Tim Costello
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Cashless gaming trial set up to fail, former participant says
With a trial into mandatory cashless gaming plagued by problems, the NSW government has begun laying the groundwork to walk away from the policy.
- by Max Maddison and Harriet Alexander
Board members secretly updated travel policy for free holiday to Vegas
The members of an upper north shore club unwittingly shouted the partners of their board directors a free overseas holiday – and then paid fringe benefits tax for the pleasure.
- by Harriet Alexander
Australian gaming billionaire ‘beat up’ in failed Estonian kidnap plot
The men allegedly posed as painter-decorators, wore hi-vis vests and entered the stairwell of an Old Town apartment building where Tim Heath lives.
- by Rob Harris
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This Sydney woman has been jailed four times for fraud. Now, she’s accused of stealing another $750k
Rina Pasaribu, a 51-year-old mother, is accused of swindling 12 people in her latest case before the courts.
- by Sarah McPhee
Bravado, fashion and protesters on show at the Caulfield Cup
Windy weather and anti-racing protesters fail to deter spirited Caulfield Cup crowd.
- by Madeleine Heffernan
Qld charities urge crackdown as private prize draws compete for funds
Charities say they have lost more than $60 million in fundraising revenue to companies running trade promotion draws without the same red tape.
- by Sean Parnell
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Online gambling
Robert started his night with an online bet. It finished in hospital with a $40,000 loss
Robert is one of the record number of Australians who have sought online gambling help in the past year. No state or territory made more requests than NSW.
- by Daniel Lo Surdo
‘Real concern’: Essendon supporter group forces vote to change club’s constitution
A group of Essendon supporters is confident it has forced a vote on a change to the club’s constitution that would acknowledge the social harm its poker machine licences have caused.
- by Jon Pierik
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Online gambling
Blow up the pokies, but if gambling ads are banned, what’s next?
There’s a special flavour of nonsense to the idea that the banning of sports-betting advertising might somehow make gambling disappear.
- by Darren Kane
A case study in sin: The rise and fall of Sihanoukville
Pleading eyes, empty rooms and abandoned construction sites – the once-glittering rivers of gold have run dry.
- by Zach Hope
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