SA Best leader Nick Xenophon. Photo: AAP/Roy Vandervegt

Politics

"Xenophon will do our industry great damage": Hotel cash pours into party coffers

The state’s gaming lobby has contributed well over $100,000 to party coffers in the lead-up to next month’s state election, with Labor, Liberal and the newly-minted Australian Conservatives all benefiting, as the Australian Hotels Association seeks to curb the looming influence of Nick Xenophon’s SA Best.

Local

Fight looms with hotels industry as Xenophon goes back to No Pokies roots

Potential political kingmaker and longtime anti-gambling crusader Nick Xenophon insists poker machine policy will play a decisive role in the state election campaign – despite the hotels lobby insisting it’s a third-order issue.

National

Whistleblowers claim Crown Casino tampered with pokies

Crown Casino has been accused of deliberately tampering with poker machines to increase gamblers’ losses, with MP Andrew Wilkie telling federal parliament the allegations suggest a “broader pattern of misbehaviour” in the pokies industry.

Eat | Drink | Explore

The pub with no pokies

Not all publicans feel pokies have a place in city pubs. Tony Bond tells CityMag why he decided to empty The Ed Castle of its gaming machines.

Opinion

Pokies are like tobacco - no amount is safe

There is no “safe” level of gambling which means harm minimisation strategies should try to reduce the use of pokies by everyone, not just problem gamblers, argue Francis Markham, Bruce Doran and Martin Young.