Gambling Addiction

Problem gambling a ‘root cause of homelessness’
By Daniel Hoare
ABC News
Posted Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:10pm AEDT
While the Federal Government has been quick to act on its election promise to address homelessness, there are calls for the Prime Minister to extend the action to include problem gambling.
Social researchers say addiction to gambling is one of the [...]

 RSL Club fights smoking ban
THE full impact of the state government’s smoking ban in licensed premises has had a major impact on the Wauchope RSL Club.
Secretary manager, Wayne Saley, said since the introduction of the ban the club had suffered a 9.1% downturn in turnover.
“While this is a dramatic impact on our club’s turnover, the [...]

Pokies strip plans for boom area
Article from: Herald Sun
Michael Warner
January 09, 2008 12:00am
A LAS Vegas-style pokies strip is planned for Melbourne’s booming outer-eastern suburbs.
Applications have been lodged for three new gaming machine venues along a 1km stretch of the Princes Highway at Officer.
Two of the proposed pokies palaces would be built less than 200m apart.
The [...]

 
Publican blows up the pokies
Article from: Courier Mail
By Melanie Christiansen
January 03, 2008 11:00pm
A QUEENSLAND hotel owner has pulled the plug on his poker machines, saying he could no longer stand to watch patrons losing all their money and leaving in tears.
Despite the loss of revenue from 40 busy poker machines, Scarborough Hotel owner Roger Okalyi [...]

Rudd urged to pressure states over pokies
The Age
Cameron Houston
January 3, 2008
ANTI-gambling activists will intensify their campaign against poker machines next month, when they meet Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to discuss the states’ growing dependence on gaming revenue.
World Vision chief executive Tim Costello and South Australian senator-elect Nick Xenophon will urge the Prime Minister to intervene [...]

Push to end states’ pokies addiction
The Australian
Matthew Franklin, Chief political correspondent | December 31, 2007
KEVIN Rudd faces intensifying pressure from minor parties in the Senate to smash the addiction of state governments to poker machine tax revenue in what looms as a major threat to the gaming industry.
And anti-poker machine activist Tim Costello has called [...]

DHS News Release December 26, 2007

General contact: Ken Palke, 503.947.5286 Program contact: Wendy Hausotter, 503.945.9703

Thousands of Oregonians will be admiring the artistic endeavors of a dozen middle school students during 2008 on an Oregon Department of Human Services color calendar designed to increase awareness of problem gambling.

The Council is pleased to provide this report outlining the main outcomes and findings from the evaluation for the CoGHS 2007 International Conference on Gambling-related Harm.
The conference was an outstanding success, and the Council has been widely congratulated for its innovation and demonstration of leadership in organising the event. The Council is extremely pleased with [...]

The Executive, on behalf of the Board of Council of Gambler’s Help Services, is pleased to deliver this
Annual Report for the period 2006-07. As the Annual Report shows, the Council achieved
considerable output during the 2006-07 financial year, on the strength of its permanent staff of
1.4EFT, an additional 6-month 1 EFT position that commenced in early [...]

 
Souths leagues club dumping pokies
The Age
December 20, 2007 - 12:33PM
South Sydney Leagues Club will remove its 60 poker machines from its licensed premises but retain the licences for a “rainy day”, the club says.
Club chairman Bill Alexiou-Hucker and Souths football club co-owner Peter Holmes a Court faced the media following a 4-3 decision by the [...]