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| Anonymous | $1.00 Coin Drop. Limit. | Discussion Forum | 2 | Tuesday, 6:48 AM EDT by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: Aug 27 2010, 7:07 PM EDT
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$1.00 Coin Drop. Limit.
Sound great to me, in Geelong our people are dieing, people that had 2 cars now have one, soon they will have non. STOP THIS GREED NOW.. MR BRUMBY.
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| Anonymous | How do we control the poker machine damage? | Discussion Forum | 5 | Monday, 8:10 AM EDT by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: Aug 28 2010, 10:06 PM EDT
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How do we control the poker machine damage?
Firstly we should look at tobacco packaging, an eqivalent product that has reeked havoc in our health system. Firstly turn off the whizzing bangs and lights and replace them with pictures graphically displaying the effects of playing this machine. Destroyed lives, hungry children, baillifs repossessing houses, angry and frustrated relatives, suicides, and overcrowded prisons And clear written warnings that playing this machine is highly addictive not only to the player but to the people governing them. When I buy my cigarettes and every time I choose to smoke one I am reminded of the damage that this form of “legitimate entertainment” can cause. As members of the community we should have a say in how dangerous products are marketed
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| Anonymous | Self Exclusion | Preston Hotel | 4 | Aug 28 2010, 5:34 AM EDT by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: Dec 12 2009, 5:56 PM EST
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Self Exclusion is on the right hand of the cashier window with phone numbers and the ALH David Swartz Gambling Awareness Posters.
I heard one of the staff say with 200 people on the exclusion list , how the hell are we supposed to remember all the faces. Very true.
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| Anonymous | A man and Woman of Principle | Discussion Forum | 5 | Aug 9 2010, 5:40 AM EDT by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: Aug 4 2010, 7:23 PM EDT
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Out go the pokies at the Sorrento Hotel.
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| Anonymous | Meals | Mac's Hotel (Melton) | 1 | Jul 31 2010, 8:32 PM EDT by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: May 30 2010, 7:46 AM EDT
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Yummy!!!!!
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| Anonymous | Playgrounds in View of Pokies. | Discussion Forum | 1 | Jul 28 2010, 2:55 AM EDT by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: Jul 27 2010, 7:27 PM EDT
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Playgrounds in View of Pokies..this has to be one of the most disgusting things I have witnessed.
So now, mums and Dads can play the Pokies while the playground looks after their kids. This is just plain madness.
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| footynotpokies | the pokies auction & Vic AFL clubs (page: 1 2) | Discussion Forum | 24 | Jul 25 2010, 10:19 PM EDT by footynotpokies | ||||
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Thread started: May 5 2010, 1:39 AM EDT
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Will the current auction process result in less machines in AFL clubs or their drinking/gambling investment s.
I can see special treatment being afforded the AFL clubs to protect this insidious source of revenue, if they dont get what they want. Then there is the so called community benefit of using pokies tax to pay professional players ... a joke.
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| Anonymous | Kids in the Pokies | Discussion Forum | 11 | Jul 21 2010, 5:54 AM EDT by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: May 4 2010, 3:04 AM EDT
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I find it very concerning, I now see kids in the pokies. We had dinner at the Highways, (not the best meal) when leaving the club we noticed a kid sitting on a chair in the pokies tapping the keys on the machine. I mean where on earth are the staff to stop this sort of thing.
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| Anonymous | Sebastopol | Sebastopol Bowling Club | 6 | Jul 18 2010, 11:56 AM EDT by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: Jun 24 2010, 5:35 AM EDT
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This area is basically a lower income area, many of the patrons are lower income and quite a few are in the lower intelligence bracket, thats not being disrespectful, its just a fact.
Staff at this venue go out of there way to patronise these types and it is done in a way that encourages more and more to come back. Comments like you have done well and I cant win on this machine, you must have the gift are common, anything to keep people in the venue, and it is hardly an area that can afford losses of 5 million dollars a year on the machines, also St Vinnies and the Salvos are forever trying to feed those encouraged to lose at this venue. They say only 2% of the population are addicted to pokies, based on statistics that is half a million people, and yet they say 'Only' And the governments reap in all the financial rewards yet hypocritically put up ads on the TV and Radio telling people not to lose their money. Like smoking, they really dont ant people to give them up, its all window dressing because of all that money that keeps flowing in.
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| Anonymous | Last night at the Doncaster Pub I won $5000. | Discussion Forum | 4 | Jul 16 2010, 7:43 PM EDT by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: Jul 11 2010, 6:02 PM EDT
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Last night at the Doncaster Pub I won $5000. I was so happy, we got paid with a cheque and had to go home, we had no money left. Dam that Cheque.
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| Anonymous | seafood platter | Hogan's Hotel Wallan - web page photo showing pokie room | 1 | Jun 22 2010, 1:39 AM EDT by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: Jun 20 2010, 6:28 AM EDT
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need to upgrade your seafood platter,for the price we pay,oysters need to be a wee bit bigger than a broad bean,crayfish was dry,dont think i will be buying another one...... nice place but unhappy with the meal..
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| balancedapproach | Losses Disguised as Wins | Discussion Forum | 1 | Jun 15 2010, 1:53 AM EDT by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: Jun 14 2010, 10:26 PM EDT
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Can someone please tell me how the machines are disguising losses as wins???
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| Anonymous | ALH Should do the same as H.Norman. | Discussion Forum | 2 | Jun 11 2010, 12:13 AM EDT by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: Jun 8 2010, 8:40 PM EDT
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Went to a hotel and this happins heaps of times, the manager or the staff open the doors to let us in, and guess what...
They dont even say good morning, how rude are these people, we are their bread and butter and they are so rude..
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| Anonymous | How to win.....Stupid. | Discussion Forum | 2 | Jun 1 2010, 7:21 PM EDT by balancedapproach | ||||
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Thread started: May 31 2010, 6:07 AM EDT
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTVhMfK2knE
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| balancedapproach | How The Machines Work | Discussion Forum | 5 | May 31 2010, 6:00 PM EDT by balancedapproach | ||||
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Thread started: May 31 2010, 2:07 AM EDT
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This is the best explanation of how the machines work on video and this is EXACTLY how they work in Victoria... :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wkubf1PrWg
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| Anonymous | Mac's Hotel Chef | Mac's Hotel (Melton) | 0 | May 30 2010, 7:49 AM EDT by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: May 30 2010, 7:49 AM EDT
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The chef pictured doesn't look like any of the chefs at Mac's Hotel.
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| balancedapproach | What's Your Real Agenda??? | Discussion Forum | 7 | May 30 2010, 6:17 AM EDT by balancedapproach | ||||
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Thread started: May 28 2010, 3:04 AM EDT
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OK, I have spent some time on this website and checked out all the posts before I got here and carried out some research of my own. First of all Paul, let me point a few things out to you...
Now, I can understand why you are going after Bruce Mathieson and Woolworths and the football clubs, but I think it's a bit unfair to pick on Bryan at the Hampton Park Tavern and Sam from Castello's Berwick Springs Hotel, to name just a couple. First of all with the Machine Talkers, Regulation 17 in the Gambling Regulation Regulations 2005 states "At all times when a gaming machine is available for gaming in an approved venue, the venue operator must ensure that a player information talker is displayed on the gaming machine so that it is clearly visible from the front of the machine". At no point does it mention that the talker HAS to be at eye level. If a talker is on the top box it can still be seen from the front of the machine (VCGR Inspectors have passed this). I know you quoted Mr Luscombe from Woolworths, but he only speaks for ALH venues not the rest of the state! Secondly, in regard to ATMs being visible from the machines, the old voluntary codes of practice did state that the ATMs would not be visible from the machines...However the new Codes of Conduct implemented on the 1st June 2009 DO NOT mention this...Also, the Gambling Regulation Act 2003 DOES NOT stipulate that ATMs have to be out of sight of the machines. So, again, this is not illegal. Thirdly, the Act nor Regulations state that it is illegal to serve customers food or drink at the gaming machines or to eat at the gaming machines. Again, I'm not talking about ALH. And probably my biggest concern is this massive push of yours to get kids out of gaming venues... Surely it is up to the parents to properly educate their children about ALL things in life...If they can't do that, don't blame gaming venues... To be continued...
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| Anonymous | what happened to the 5cent and 10 cent coins | Discussion Forum | 17 | May 29 2010, 7:25 PM EDT by balancedapproach | ||||
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Thread started: May 15 2010, 8:43 PM EDT
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Activists have called on governments to adopt the $1 maximum button push and maximum $120 per hour loss limit, believed to be a key recommendation of the yet-to-be-released Productivity Commission Inquiry into Gambling.
I want to know what happened to the 5cent and 10 cent coins they used to use.....they have to do something, I suppose a $1, is a start.
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| balancedapproach | Interesting Reading | Discussion Forum | 7 | May 29 2010, 7:21 PM EDT by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: May 22 2010, 11:54 PM EDT
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Interesting Reading!!!
http://www.clubsnsw.com.au/Content/NavigationMenu/PolicyIssues/ClubsAustralia/MSB05-2010E.pdf
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| Anonymous | Main Bar closing early. | Discussion Forum | 5 | May 28 2010, 3:18 AM EDT by balancedapproach | ||||
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Thread started: May 21 2010, 11:42 PM EDT
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Have people noticed how the main bars are closing early at Pubs and the patrons told they can go through to the Pokies, just so they can take more of your money...This stinks of greed to me.
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