In Australia, The Greens and the Labor Party have joined forces to extend the deadline for local community clubs to shut some of their poker machines by another year, and the Gambling Minister of the ACT, plans to introduce a new piece of legislation in order to make sure that every 1,000 residents of Canberra have only 15 pokies at their disposal.
But Shane Rattenbury, leader of the Australian Greens party, has admitted that the poker machine trading scheme which had been unveiled by the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has not worked as initially planned.
Because it was only intended to reduce the number of poker machines, rather than to inflict any harm on community clubs. The set of tools for control, checks, and balance which is featured by the piece of legislation would actually come at the expense of the clubs, which is not what was meant to be done.
Even some community clubs also agreed that there were too many pokies on the territory of Canberra and demonstrated their willingness to become part of the solution. But now the expenses of the bill have been charged on the community clubs, creating total discomfort between all them.
