Sec 161(a) of the Victorian Fair Trading Act 1999 demands that any good or service MUST provide a receipt for spending for purchases made over $50....without the consumer having to ask!! Poker machines were found in 2005 to be operated outside the law....since then the venues have tried to dream up some 'band aid ' measure to avoid being charged with illegal business operations. Try getting a receipt for a poker machine AUTOMATICALLY in ANY venue after spending $50...!! The gambling industry and venues have been 'excused' ....a blind eye has been turned...because the Victorian government WANTS them to trade illegally!! Yet this quoted consumer law was brought in to protect ALL consumers. There is a subtle but misguided belief in society that poker machine users are 'socially deficient, defective mental losers' who thus do not deserve legal protection fro mconsumer or other laws. Pokies industry full adherence to the law is thus allowed to be ignored...as if "users of poker machines deserve 'all harm that befalls them'....so WHO would deserve or need a receipt for spending??" This is an abuse of human rights. Without a spending receipt NO consumer may be responsible because he/she cannot know what is spent so cannot budget. Smart cards for users of poker machines MUST be brought in...to force the gambling industry to fully comply with consumer law. Poker machines users ALSO should be MADE to have a license to use pokies....these are dangerous and deadly products...that cause mass community destruction! To think that they are a fun recreation is just ROT...when the majority of pokies users all over-spend very badly! Such nonsense is peddled like insults eg " only Wowsers hate pokies"...."only 2% of people have a problem so it's no problem"...it is CRAP! Designed to appeal to our emotive self-worth, herding instincts!! Make pokies user buy a license! Right now our fish are protected better than people!

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