Are pokies hurting someone you know ? Is that why ...

2008-09-29T23:14:00.000+10:00

Are pokies hurting someone you know ? Is that why you are reading this blog ? My name is Richard Wolff, I am the founder of www.makepokiessafe.com Annual pokies profits are $8 BILLION . Commonwealth Bank only makes $4.7 Billion, ANZ Bank $4.1 billion, Telstra 3.7 billion, and Woolworths 1.6 billion. Let's get this right - pokies transfer twice as much wealth per year as the biggest banks make in profit, more than twice Telstra's profit , more than 5 times Woolworths profit. This sourge , this epidemic , is able to take more cash then the biggest companies make with billions of dollars invested in infrastructure. And they do it with 200,000 pokies strategically positioned around the country. Time is up ! It is time for action. Makepokiessafe.com provides suggestions of what can be done to raise the community awareness and centralises all current media on this crisis.

I find it really interesting that people like Rupe...

2008-09-28T19:34:00.000+10:00

I find it really interesting that people like Rupert Murdoch, Dick Smith, Harvey Norman and James Packer are only too happy for people to know which businesses they own (as are people who own many of the non-pokie pubs), yet when it comes to who owns pokie venues, ownership of a business suddenly becomes clouded in "commercial and in confidence" rhetoric.
If all is legal and as "rigourously" regulated as representatives of the industry keep telling us, one has to wonder, why are they hiding behind commercial and in confidence laws? Almost as improtantly, WHAT are they hiding?

Sue Pinkerton

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Are pokies hurting someone you know ? Is that why ...

I find it really interesting that people like Rupe...