by Nigel Gladstone & Nick O’Malley – NSW Clubs and RSLs are building on-site retirement villages, day care centres and hotels using special exemptions from planning laws in a push to break their dependency on poker machine profits.
by Nick O’Malley – THE Northern Beaches Council is to vote on a controversial set of policies to restrict poker machines, including a measure that would allow it to ban the machines from property leased by council.
by Nick O’Malley – DEE Why RSL Club has urged community groups that it funds with poker machine profits to oppose draft gambling harm minimisation policy being considered by the Northern Beaches Council.
by Robbie Patterson – A PUSH to have poker machine numbers on the peninsula capped at current levels will be debated by Northern Beaches Council tonight.
by Lisa Visentin – NORTHERN Beaches councillors are calling for the state government to put an immediate cap on poker machine licences in the local area.
by Robbie Patterson – POKIES at the North Manly Bowling Club have almost tripled since a merger with Manly Leagues, leading to fears a new sports headquarters could be built with many more machines.
Manly councillor Pat Daley’s zero-tolerance approach to drug abuse is definitely no spur-of-the-moment campaign, writes Marj Belessis. No-one could say they hadn’t been warned. Pat Daley, back in April, let it be known that security and safety would be one of his top priorities if and when he was elected to Manly Council.
by Sarah Swain – A NORTHERN beaches councillor who has seen families “ripped apart” by ice has been given a position on the front line of the country’s war on drugs.
by Steven Deare – CLUBS pitching to run a North Manly sports premises will be told Warringah Council has concerns about pokies encouraging problem gambling.
by Steven Deare – A COUNCILLOR will call for a limit on a club’s poker machines due to his concerns it could gain more and lead to problem gambling.
by Steven Deare – A “Taj Mahal-style” venue packed with poker machines could be in store for North Manly according to a councillor, triggering concerns over problem gambling.
