A Canberra woman whose life was nearly ruined by an addiction to poker machines is calling on policy makers in Western Australia to continue to resist any change to the state’s pokie laws.
Unlike in the eastern states,where pokies can be seen in just about every pub, bar and club while governments rake in billions from their trade, WA only allows them at Perth’s Burswood Casino.
Twice-jailed former WA premier Brian Burke – whose government helped bring Burswood to life in the 1980s – said in his recently published autobiography that “very unfairly, the policy penalises WA in the carve-up of federal funding, with the other states and the Commonwealth saying WA has not maximised its own tax-gathering potential because of the lower tax tak…
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