Australia's gambling disease.

At least since the end of the Second World War, Australia has become more infected with a gambling disease. We all know that Australians love a flutter and probably always will.

There has also, always been the need for our authorities to try and control the excesses,mostly criminal. With the introduction of slot machines in NSW in about 1956, now known as gaming machines,we have seen the growth of licensed clubs which have developed in to emporiums, for want of a better description. It is about that time, that the so- called industry, became contagious.

Note, that the legalisation of lincensed clubs and gambling, started when the NSW government (Labor) introduced the relevant legislation. From that time the political parties took it upon themselves to not only encourage the penetration of poker machines in clubs but also extend into hotels and Pubs. In latter years we have had the introduction of Casino's and currently reports of criminal activities such as money laundering Etc. All of this primarily fostered by the political agenda.

It is this status that governments have come to rely on here in Australia, at the cost of those people who have become addicted, creating the other side of the disease. We , the people,infected by this gambling industry have got to speak out. To tell our so-called political ,masters to immediately start winding back these activities but in the interim,channel all earnings from taxes, licenses ,etc to solve the shortage of housing now prevalling, or some other such social need.

Finally cease issuing any additional licenses while preventing extensions of the industry. The politicians have driven this industry and we the nation will have to learn to get by with out these false earnings. It is quite clear that earnings derived from the Gambling industry are insidious and must be stopped if we are ever going to remove this disease. With a parliament of individual , independents, members of the Movement for better governmwnt, we will at least start to correct this abomination.

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