13 Venues - 511 Pokies
Corner Hyde and Napier Streets,
Footscray, 3011
Tel: 9688 0200

City of Maribyrnong Website

2006-2007 Expenditure Data from the VCGR all LGAs web page (all figures as at 30 June 2007)
Please note disclaimers on the VCGR web page.

Population per venue	Population (18+) per venue	Net EGM expenditure per person	Net EGM expenditure per adult	Average VIC Metro EGM expenditure per adult	EGM per 1000	EGM per 1000 (18+)	Average VIC Metro EGM per 1000 (18+)
5,353	4,318	$926	$1,148	$688	10.51	13.03	6.81

VCGR City of Maribyrnong Web Page

Hotels and Clubs Inspected:

2. Ashley Hotel - 48 Pokies
226 Ballarat Road
Braybrook, 3019
4. Braybrook Taverner - 31 Pokies
353 Ballarat Road
Braybrook, 3019
5. Club Leeds - 30 Pokies
17 Leeds Street
Footscray, 3011
6. Court House Hotel (Footscray) - 21 Pokies
166 Nicolson Street
Footscray, 3011
7. Footscray Football Club - 48 Pokies
417 Barkly Street
West Footscray, 3012
8. Highpoint Taverner (Pokies Plus) - 70 Pokies
Rosamond Road
Maribyrnong, 3032
9. Powell Hotel - 30 Pokies
202 Ballarat Road
Footscray, 3011

Comments

The City of Maribyrnong has rejected an application by the Footscray Football Club for a gambling facility on Edgewater Boulevard. Click here to read the City's release on the matter.To read the press report in The Age click here. To read the press report in the Star click here.
A directions hearing was conducted with respect to this application on 12 August 2008. Argument was conducted about public disclosure of the venues where the pokies for Club Edgewater would be sourced. Counsel for the club sought that the names of these venues where the number of pokies would be reduced not be disclosed to the public. Notes indicate that 53 pokies would be transfered to the new premises by the club. It was stated that the pokie facilities at Whitten Oval would be closed. It is reasonable to calculate that this might result in a reduction of 5 pokies from Club Leeds. A further 17 pokies would be removed from other premises. The net result would be a reduction in 11 pokies in the city. According to counsel, the city had commissioned a survey and wanted to ask participants what the effect on the community of such reductions might be.
The hearing was set for a date in November.
If these reductions were to be sourced from premises supplied by Tattersall's within the City of Maribrynong, it would seem that the source of these pokies would be the Yarraville Club or the Yarraville Cricket Club or venues associated with Safeway/Woolworths.
A Monash University study reported that the City of Maribyrnong had the 2nd highest percentage of problem gamblers in Victoria. Click here to read an article about this study