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A Dungeons & Dragons game in New Hampshire.

Change in rules from ‘races’ to ‘species’ rankles Dungeons & Dragons players

Not even the world’s biggest role-playing game, now 50 years old, is immune from the broader cultural debate about balancing inclusivity with history and tradition.

  • Marc Tracy

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NSW is losing $1 million an hour on pokies.

‘Callous exploitation’: NSW losing $1 million an hour on pokies

In one council area, more than $2 million a day was poured into poker machines during a three-month period, leaving gambling reform advocates furious.

  • Michael McGowan
Crown Melbourne chief executive Mike Volkert, right, and former Crown Resorts chief executive Ciaran Carruthers at Flemington.

‘Do we care about player safety?’ Casino boss wants mandatory pokies reform

Crown casino was subjected to strict requirements after it was found to have facilitated money-laundering. Now it wants the same rules applied to everyone.

  • Harriet Alexander
NSW Labor’s new report into pokies will stoke more division as the government works out how to tackle money laundering.

After a trial that pleased no one, NSW’s biggest gambling loser is clear

NSW Labor promised a cashless gaming trial, but it was always doomed to fail. Now it has an even bigger problem.

  • Alexandra Smith
A report into gambling reform has been panned by its own advisors.

‘Embarrassing, not credible’: Why pubs and clubs won’t back gambling scheme

The Australian Hotels Association sat on the advisory panel for gambling reform – but it has strongly rejected its final recommendations for account-based gaming.

  • Harriet Alexander and Max Maddison
All Liquor and Gaming investigations into money laundering via poker machines came to an abrupt halt in July 2022.

A critical NSW government report is being kept from you. Why?

The Herald has campaigned for poker machine reform for the past two years, and we have no intention of backing off.

  • The Herald's View
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Poker machine play would no longer be anonymous under a proposed new regime.

The surprise twist in new cashless gaming system

Gamblers could still use cash and there would be no binding limit to the amount a poker machine player could spend under a draft proposal by the gambling reform panel.

  • Harriet Alexander and Alexandra Smith
NSW is home to about half of Australia’s poker machines.

What researchers found when they interviewed 204 pokies players at a Sydney club

The expert panel on cashless gaming is bound by confidentiality agreements not to discuss its recommendations. But a study released by one panel member gives an insight into its deliberations.

  • Harriet Alexander
Gambling reform was a major debate during the 2023 NSW election campaign.

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.

  • Max Maddison and Harriet Alexander
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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.

  • Harriet Alexander

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