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Your views: on pokies, tax reform and trees

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.

Woolworths' pokies exit "not about gaming"

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.

Problem-gambling "alert" system launched in SA pubs and clubs

An automated system designed to alert gaming staff when poker machine users are at risk has been rolled out in South Australian pubs and clubs.

FactCheck: would pokies reform in SA wipe out 'many' of 26,000 jobs?

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.

Woolworths accused of "profiling" pokie gamblers

Staff at Woolworths-owned pubs are being accused of profiling poker machine users to encourage them to stay longer and gamble more.

Xenophon backs “achievable” plan to reduce pokies

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.

SA Best won't support pokie ban: new candidate

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.

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Tom Richardson Tuesday, January 23 10
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Labor in Tasmania vows to phase out pokies

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Problem gambler? Talk to someone who's been there

Ann Lawrence / Relationships Australia SA Wednesday, October 11 8
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South Australians spending millions less on pokies

David Washington Wednesday, September 13 3

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Problem-gambling "alert" system launched in SA pubs and clubs

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