by mw061074 | November 18, 2021 | (Pokies) Media, Newspaper
No budging on pokies bill Adam Holmes| Examiner/Advocate | 18 November 2021 The government and Labor have rejected an attempt to limit the number of poker machines owned by an individual operator to 15 per cent of the Tasmanian market, instead sticking with a 25 per...
by mw061074 | November 18, 2021 | (Pokies) Media, Newspaper
Pokies laws look safe bet David Killick | Mercury | 18 November 2021 Labor has been accused of “betraying the battlers of Tasmania” by voting to prevent further scrutiny of the government’s gambling reform legislation.CONTROVERSIAL gambling reforms look set to pass...
by mw061074 | November 15, 2021 | (Pokies) Media, Newspaper
Pokies reforms under scrutiny Sue Bailey | Mercury | 15 November 2021 THE future of the government’s controversial poker machine reforms will again be debated in the Legislative Council this week.At least one member of the Upper House it set to move for the Bill to...
by mw061074 | November 12, 2021 | (Pokies) Media, Homepage Slider, Newspaper
Nelson MLC Meg Webb’s marathon six-and-a-half hour speech slams parties over pokies policy Adam Holmes | Examiner/Advocate | 12 November 2021 Over the course of a six-and-a-half-hour speech in the upper house, Nelson independent MLC Meg Webb has laid bare her...
by mw061074 | November 12, 2021 | (Pokies) Media, Newspaper
Webb’s pokie law marathon: Record seven-hour speech David Killick | Mercury | 12 November 2021 TASMANIA’S Upper House members last night sat through what was labelled the Legislative Councils’ longest ever speech as debate surrounding gambling legislation dragged...
by mw061074 | November 9, 2021 | (Pokies) Media, Newspaper
Cashing in: the gambling industry writes the rules and sways Tasmania’s elections Stephanie Convery | The Guardian | 9 November 2021Bill before state’s upper house has ‘been literally written by industry’, an independent MP says.Tasmania became the first state in...