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Australia’s gambling and poker machine companies are big beneficiaries of R&D tax credits.

‘Problematic’ gambling company tax breaks on Chalmers’ radar

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has indicated the government will tighten its focus on gambling companies’ use of R&D tax credits, which can total tens of millions.

  • Millie Muroi

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A report into a cashless gaming trial was completed last September.

Government refuses to release results of first cashless gaming trial

A report into the first club to conduct a cashless gaming trial was completed in September but the government will not release it.

  • Toni Ambrogetti
Poker machine game creator Scott Olive.

Scott had a billion-dollar brainwave in the shower. It sent rivals into a frenzy

The irresistible combination of maths, graphics and sound made billions of dollars - and triggered an almighty legal stoush.

  • Harriet Alexander
Aristocrat Leisure pioneered poker machines that dominate Australia’s pubs, clubs and casinos.

Pokies giant gets orders against senior staffer who allegedly downloaded cache of company documents

Aristocrat Leisure has won urgent orders stopping its head of game design from using any of the 6800 files he allegedly downloaded from the group’s servers.

  • Sarah Danckert
Questionable investment: Almost 40 per cent of Australian adults gamble at least once a week, a government survey found earlier this year - and the costs to society are huge.

Gambling stocks’ 300 per cent surge is a dilemma for super funds

Gambling, with its proven links to social harms, may become a tougher investment to justify to the millions of workers who put their money in Australia’s $3.5 trillion superannuation system.

  • Amy Bainbridge
Alex Mills, from West Footscray in Melbourne, was mortified to discover his super fund HESTA invests in gambling companies.

The ‘socially aware’ super funds that hold millions of poker-machine and gambling shares

While progressive super funds have largely divested from fossil fuel companies, some still invest members’ savings in pokies, casinos and online betting companies.

  • Michael Koziol
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Aristocrat’s pokies business continues to be a jackpot for investors.

The $25 billion pokies giant gambling on tech

Aristocrat is the hidden name behind the headlines when talk turns to Australia’s addiction to poker machines, but the $25 billion group has made its biggest gamble on the tech industry.

  • Colin Kruger
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Pokies giant takes $1.5b gamble on Israeli gaming outfit

Aristocrat Leisure will acquire NeoGames in a push to firm up its position in the online lottery market after a failed bid for another gaming firm last year.

  • Millie Muroi
Pressure has been growing for poker machine reform in NSW.

Vegas, Nashville, New York: Gaming regulator to examine pokie junkets

Study tours for pokie purchases are common knowledge in the clubs industry. But are they in line with the law?

  • Harriet Alexander
Lightning Link Casino replicates the games you know from Aristocrat poker machines.

Australians spend millions playing the pokies on their phone but they’ll never win a cent

Unregulated, simulated casino games prove lucrative for developers, but experts fear they are breeding future problem gamblers.

  • James Lemon

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