Licked and loaded: how much are clubs pushing free grog on pokies players?
Allegations that pubs and clubs in NSW fuel poker machine gambling with free alcohol will not go away. How much free alcohol is flowing in the gaming rooms of NSW?
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Category: Business
ClubsNSW: silent on toxic pokies culture
The thuggish ClubsNSW, poker machine promoter extraordinaire and champion of NSW clubs’ billion dollar pokies income, is given to whining about media coverage of the predatory clubs pokies culture. Yet this publication is yet to hear “boo”.
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Pokie Profits Investigation: clubs put executive pay, the state and empire building before community service
Huge gaming profits versus a minuscule return to the community. Vaulting pay for their executives and billions for the NSW Government. These are the findings of the most in-depth investigation into top NSW club finances to date.
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Police raids and prosecution of whistleblower David McBride spark global condemnation
An article in the Canadian media, ‘The Aussie Files: Scandal Of Criminal Proportions, describes world disbelief over the Australian Federal Police raids and prosecution of whistleblower, David McBride.
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How did the ‘clever country’ end up with a $90 billion botched NBN?
The Coalition’s botched NBN is not just a costly technological failure, but a policy debacle that has cost Australia’s taxpayers billions of dollars. Kim Wingerei reports.
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Rowers’ Reprise: how Angus Taylor’s mates cleaned up without him
“Nothing to see here,” said Scomo, following misconduct allegations over Angus Taylor allegedly trying to influence Josh Frydenberg to weaken laws to escape prosecution by a company he part owns.
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Watergate Crew: the regatta of mates behind Australia’s richest water deal
AS THE cold mist from the Thames River dispersed in the winter evenings of the early 1990s, three young men from Oxford University would make the pilgrimage between their digs at the prestigious New College and the college rowing sheds on the Isis river.
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Investigation: The Sydney Institute’s Gala Balls-up
“The Annual Dinner is an occasion for a prominent personality to present a serious lecture to an audience of some 900 paying guests – after they have enjoyed dinner and over an hour of networking.
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Dietitians Backslide – dump corporate sponsorships, invite ads instead
Is the DAA back to its old tricks? After investigations here into food giants such as Nestle and Sanitarium financing the Dietitian’s Association of Australia
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A 200pc return from water? Nice work if you can get it!
Caymans company, Eastern Australia Irrigation, made a 200 per cent return from Australian water and cotton farms. Michael West reports on the serious accounting issues and fishy water valuations
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Dracula Time: new pokies stats show community benefits are a mirage
Do clubs really return their pokies millions to the community? Investigation.
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Chinese frustration with Australia boils over, taking 5G Chinese ban to WTO
China-Australia relations are going to be a big issue this election, particularly in the light of...
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Revolving Doors
Australian politicians and bureaucrats with links to fossil fuel & resource extraction industries.
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