An upper house member has claimed Tasmanians still have little knowledge of what pokies reforms will look like in the community even after two elections, but the government and Labor have blocked a move for further scrutiny. The Legislative Council voted eight to six against a motion to send the government’s pokies reforms to a […]

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A Labor MLC representing the part of the state most heavily saturated with poker machines says the reform debate is no longer of much interest to his community as he signals his intention to vote in its favour. Elwick MLC Josh Willie spoke in the Legislative Council on Wednesday after being heavily lobbied by pokies […]

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House of Assembly speaker Mark Shelton has rejected a claim that some House of Assembly members may have been under the influence of alcohol during the final vote on gaming legislation last month. Lower house members engaged in a 23-hour debate over separate sittings in October and passed the controversial gaming bill late at night […]

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