Clubs stake new claims on pokies trials

May 6th, 2012

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”How about they do a cost-benefit analysis on the lives they [pokies] have destroyed,” Senator Xenophon said.

Mr Wilkie has so far withheld support for the bill over worries that the Prime Minister’s comment in January- that mandatory precommitment could be turned on ”at the flick of a switch” – was not reflected in the legislation.

”I am still considering my position regarding the government’s watered-down poker machine reform,” Mr Wilkie said. ”Obviously I’ll be most interested to see if the government seeks to accommodate more of the pokies industry’s desires.”

A spokeswoman for Ms Macklin said the government welcomed Clubs ACT’s ”willingness to work with us to achieve that outcome”.

Mr House said he had made it clear that ”under no circumstances” would he support any legislation – to the point of the trial not proceeding – that would represent a de facto decision to implement mandatory pre-commitment.