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| "text": "Ban everything, much easier", | |
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| "text": "I wish Labor could stand up to the gambling lobby like this guy is.", | |
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| "text": "He's doing this on purpose because it's a well known fact that the lions share of donations from clubs with pokies go to the Labor party.", | |
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| "text": "Whilst I agree with this. Where do you stop. People pay to have their agenda pushed. Perhaps politicians and media need to be more forthright, and accountable for their conflicts of interest", | |
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| "text": "[deleted]", | |
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| "text": "Bring it.", | |
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| "text": "*From venues that host*", | |
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| "text": "I feel deeply suspicious of this wording.... but I guess it is something.", | |
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| "text": "That’s quite an ignorant statement", | |
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| "text": "I wish the current government had enacted some of this legislation during the last decade or so when they’ve been in power instead of waiting until an election they’re predicted to lose to talk about it at all.", | |
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| "text": "They failed at tackling the greyhound issue ( of which gambling is an associated issue) and when their own minister for gambling/alcohol etc , Vi Dominello floated a cashless gambling card not so long ago, they took the portfolio off him!", | |
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| "text": "It’s a cynical and desperate ploy from a desperate government and while I’d be happy to see the death of all forms of gambling in NSW, it’s an absolute fail for me in terms of the morality and sincerity of the current government who’ve gleefully stuffed their coffers with money from gambling over the course of the last decade without regret or shame.", | |
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| "text": "Perrottet is lying he’s just desperate. I mean let’s be honest, the LNP are desperate not too lose another state. Then they’ll only have one fucking state.", | |
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| "text": "Why are Labor so in the pocket with pokies and associated organisations?", | |
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| "text": "Interestingly the Nazi photo showed up a few days after he said he was introducing cashless gambling only on pokie machines to reduce problem gambling.", | |
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| "text": "lol wut? His anti-pokie stance existed WELL before the Nazi costume photo. In fact it is possible that the photo is retaliation for his stance. There are high horses to stay on, get off this one, you look silly.", | |
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| "text": "So lame calling people Nazis...", | |
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| "text": "Sorry I didn’t put a /s for your ignorance", | |
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| "text": "I'm not 100% but I guess its something to do with when they were introduced into the state in large numbers by the Bob Carr Labor government, and the Labor factions fought over ownership, sometimes with deadly consequences", | |
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| "text": "Nope. Perrotet was responsible for stripping the then Minister for Gambling, Vic Dominello of the portfolio because he was trying to reform the gaming industry. If he was so anti gambling, anti pokies, why on earth did he stymie the opportunity to do something about it and ‘sack’ the minister who was actually trying to do something about it?", | |
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| "text": "“As the minister responsible for the gaming portfolio, Dominello did more than most to try to address the problem. But six months after he publicly backed him, Perrottet, now the premier, stripped Dominello of the job.”", | |
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| "text": "https://amp.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/14/victor-dominello-set-out-to-reform-gambling-in-nsw-but-the-odds-were-always-against-him", | |
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| "text": "https://www.afr.com/companies/games-and-wagering/did-the-pokie-industry-just-demote-the-nsw-gaming-minister-20211220-p59ix0", | |
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| "text": "https://amp.smh.com.au/national/nsw/targeted-clubs-named-in-axed-money-laundering-probe-20221019-p5br1g.html", | |
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| "text": "Are you living in the same reality as me? Perrottet already came out in favour of a precommitment cashless card for pokies before the Nazi uniform news.", | |
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| "text": "[NSW Crime Commissions report was in October 2022.](https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/key-findings-from-the-nsw-crime-commission-investigation-into-money-laundering-in-pokies-20221026-p5bt0s.html)", | |
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| "text": "Anyone saying \"he's just being anti pokie because he got caught joking around as a Nazi like nearly every actor on TV did in the 1990s/2000s\" is just delusional. His latest pokie stance pre-dates the photo allegations.", | |
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| "text": "But his shutting down of a solution to problem gambling and money laundering occurred before the nazi uniform revelations, meaning your statement that “His anti pokie stance existed WELL before his nazi costume photo” is in stark contrast to his actual actions as premier. The fact he did nothing and sacked the minister that wanted to do something, suggests he was never genuinely concerned about addicts and money laundering at all.", | |
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| "text": "He has had the opportunity to enact legislation at any point since becoming premier but instead chose to deliberately sack his own minister, the guy who actually was trying to curb pokie gambling.", | |
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| "text": "He’s making cynical promises to win an election, not because he has a moral or genuine concern about gambling because if he was, he would have actually enacted legislation before this.", | |
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| "text": "So? The responder above said that it is \"suspect\" and a \"stunt\" to distract from the Nazi photo issue. I'm not saying DP had the good position for all time, I agree DP had a shit-tier pokies stance earlier last year, just like Labor does now. But DP's change of heart happened BEFORE the Nazi costume issue.", | |
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| "text": "Do you think that DP is a time traveller? Because assigning causation in reverse is impossible otherwise.", | |
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