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Opinion
Readers respond to the decision to allow notes to be used in poker machines, the Treasurer’s latest comments on the proposed land tax reform, and the axing of century-old trees amid the heated international climate change debate.
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Business
Supermarket giant Woolworths is combining its liquor and hospitality businesses ahead of a divestment next year, but insists it is not trying to distance itself from the gambling industry.
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The Australian Hotels Association of South Australia claims poker machine reforms proposed by Nick Xenophon’s SA Best party would wipe out ‘many of the 26,000’ jobs in the hotel industry. Is that right? Fabrizio Carmignani examines the claim.
Staff at Woolworths-owned pubs are being accused of profiling poker machine users to encourage them to stay longer and gamble more.
Nick Xenophon has released a watered-down anti-pokies policy, backing a slow reduction in the number of machines rather than a complete ban – but nonetheless, the hotels industry is warning the plan will kill pubs and clubs across the state.
Nick Xenophon’s newest candidate has confirmed the SA Best party will not support a complete ban on poker machines in pubs and clubs, despite an earlier declaration from Xenophon that the party’s pokies policy would “worry” the Australian Hotels Association.
