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Australia’s Labor Party ‘sells out on gambling’
December 12, 2013
Sky News – The major parties have been accused of selling out problem gamblers after Labor agreed to help the federal government repeal the first national poker machine reform laws. Anti-gambling campaigner and Tasmanian independent MP Andrew Wilkie described the move as a ‘shocking betrayal’ of the Australian community. ‘Both parties don’t give a toss about problem gamblers and are beholden to their pokies industry political donors,’ Mr Wilkie said. ‘The Labor party is weak and uncaring, and no better than the Liberals, when it comes to gambling reform.’ Last year, the federal parliament passed watered-down measures aimed at curbing…