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NSW Liberal Opposition Leader Kellie Sloane and Federal Liberal Opposition Leader Sussan Ley arrive at the NSW Liberal State Council Meeting in Sydney on Saturday.

Coalition casts doubt on Perrottet’s signature gambling policy

Cashless gaming was a key policy for former Liberal premier Dominic Perrottet in the 2023 election campaign.

  • Alexandra Smith and Harriet Alexander

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A trial of cashless pokies in Victorian pubs and clubs has been rejected by reform advocates.

Gambling reformers lash out at pokies trial over missing loss limits

Anti-pokies campaigners have dumped their support for a trial of carded-play technology after the government ditched its commitment to include mandatory loss limits.

  • Chip Le Grand
Gambling reform advocate Tim Costello and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

‘Conflict of interest’ claim over new double ministry of sport, communication

One of Australia’s top anti-gambling advocates warns that lumping the sport and communications portfolios under the same minister will further delay action on blocking gambling ads aimed at children.

  • Calum Jaspan
Cardinals in St Peter’s Square at the Vatican for the funeral mass for Pope Benedict XVI in 2023.

Religion and good morals don’t always go together

Columnist Ross Gittins makes the mistake of assuming that organised religion leads to altruism and belief in the common good, writes Mark d’Arbon.

Communications Minister Michelle Rowland and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Albanese used captain’s call to avoid messy brawl over gambling ads

This was the fourth time the prime minister had blocked controversial policies to avoid rocking the boat as he prepared for the campaign.

  • Paul Sakkal
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AFL backs grand final umpire’s role with Sportsbet horse racing show

Anti-gambling crusader Reverend Tim Costello believes it’s highly inappropriate for an AFL field umpire to be on the payroll of a major betting company as a horse racing analyst.

  • Scott Spits
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The three newest MPs to join NSW parliament all spoke out against gambling in the state.

Three MPs made their first speech this week. And they all spoke about one issue

Poker machine reforms were the unifying factor for three new MPs.

  • Nick Newling
The government has made cuts to the NDIS to keep growing costs under control.

Labor inherited NDIS problems from Coalition

Most of the rorting and mismanagement of the scheme can be attributed to 10 years of Coalition governments, a reader writes.

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.

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Tim Costello and Anthony Albanese.

Social media’s too risky for kids but gambling’s OK? PM’s each-way bet stinks

Apparently, the social licence of the betting companies that deluge us with 1 million ads a year isn’t problematic for the government.

  • Tim Costello