Most community bids to block pokies fail – the law is stacked against them too
- Written by: Dr Mette Hotker, Lecturer in Social Planning, RMIT University
Most Australians know you never end up winning on the pokies. What Australians might not know is that the odds of winning a case against a poker-machine proposal in their local neighbourhood are very poor too. My recent study shows the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGLR) approved almost 90% of poker-machine licence...
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