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Media release For immediate release 17 December 2024 Record-breaking losses of $2.25b in just 92 days- NSW now losing … Continued
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Media release 4 December 2024 Wesley Mission confident a mandatory cashless gambling card will work Wesley Mission welcomes the release of the Roadmap for Gaming Reform today but is disappointed by some of the watered-down recommendations it contains. While the Roadmap calls for the eventual introduction of a mandatory cashless … Continued
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Media release 3 December 2024 Wesley Mission confident a mandatory cashless gambling card will work Wesley Mission welcomes the … Continued
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27 November 2024 A ban on gambling advertising would help lift millions of Australians out of future poverty. But free-to-air TV stations, other commercial media, and sporting codes, lobby hard that the loss of the ill-gotten revenue they make from the current situation is too financially painful to bear. The major political parties … Continued
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Media release 26 November 2024 Community appetite for two key poker machine reforms at highest levels Powering down the pokies and a mandatory cashless card have the overwhelming support of the NSW public, according to the latest Community Attitudes to Gambling Reform Survey conducted by Wesley Mission and Compass Polling. Results showed significant public backing … Continued
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The decision by the Tasmanian Liberal Rockcliffe Government to backflip on becoming the first State to introduce a poker machine cashless card is an inexcusable capitulation to the power of the gambling lobby. The Alliance’s Chief Advocate, Tim Costello, said he was shocked and devastated by the announcement by the Tasmanian Government to ‘defer progress’ … Continued
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Chief advocate for the Alliance for Gambling Reform, Tim Costello AO, has issued an Open Letter to the Premier, Jeremy Rockliff, and all members of the State Parliament, urging them to resist the efforts of the gambling lobby to undermine the promised poker machine mandatory pre-commitment card reforms. Mr Costello released the Open Letter in … Continued
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Nine Entertainment’s board directors will today be urged to end the network’s gambling addiction and its executives have been condemned as ‘shameful’ for actively lobbying the Federal Government to scrap gambling harm reduction measures. The chief advocate of the Alliance for Gambling Reform, Tim Costello, on the eve of the company’s AGM today condemned Nine’s … Continued
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What: Media conference after Nine’s AGM Who: Tim Costello, Chief Advocate, Alliance for Gambling Reform Mark Kempster, Reformed Gambler (Mark lost more than $100,000 to online gambling and sports betting) When: Around 11.30am at conclusion of Nine’s AGM Where: Outside the office 1 Denison Street, North Sydney. Nine Entertainment’s board directors will today be urged to end … Continued
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What: Media conference after Nine’s AGM Who: Tim Costello, Chief Advocate, Alliance for Gambling Reform Mark Kempster, Reformed Gambler (Mark lost more than $100,000 to online gambling and sports betting) When: Around 11.30am at conclusion of Nine’s AGM Where: Outside the office 1 Denison Street, North Sydney. Nine Entertainment’s board directors will today be urged to end … Continued
