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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