6th March 2008. It makes me increasingly sad every time I try and buy a newspaper at a newsagent in this state, to line up behind a long line of mostly pensioners buying lotto, scratch tickets, and lottery tickets, peddled by the dream merchants and endorsed by the state. The glossy signs behind the counter are very full of words like ‘win’, ‘fortune’, and ‘luck’, but nary a sign of ‘lose’, ‘next to no chance’,or ‘ever been had’.
‘Luck never gives it only lends’
18th September 2007 . In our state ( NSW) with the greatest number of poker machines and gambling outlets in the world, our caring sharing State government has now additionally licenced hotels to run Keno ( a numbers game ). At the same time one of our league’s clubs, a bastion of poker machines has declared that it will probaly take all poker machines out of its club as statistics indicate that 50% of poker machine and gambling revenue comes from government pensions , or those that can least afford to gamble.
