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Iām not referring to the currency.
Cashless as in electronic payment only.
Legal tender, same thing. The vic gov canāt do it, they especially canāt do it just for Crown, and even if they did do it, it would just end up in a stupidly long and expensive court battle that would cost the taxpayer millions
Of course not. You canāt see the wind if itās dark.
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Well no, not really.
Our toll roads are now cashless, public transport etc. through covid many businesses switched to electronic payment only as well to reduce cash handling.
The casino accepts cash and then cashes back into accounts(at least the last time I visited, has been a couple of years).
Itās pretty simple, they stop accepting cash money.
What that simply means is money before it is gambled would have to be deposited into Australian bank accounts.
And it has nothing to do with the federal government in terms of regulation. Gaming is state based.
Of course businesses can mandate whatever method they want, my point is the state government canāt force them to do it either way. I donāt know why Crown would voluntarily refuse cash payments, outside of undertakings - but theyāre also not losing their license anyway.
Seems they are doing it anyway which is probably why they kept their licence
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RC recommended limiting cash transactions to $1k and stricter ID.
Banks have been required to report transfers of $10k for some time - Some have been fined on that account.
Itās so funny.
I canāt see if this has been discussed yet across the 3 political threads?
This proposal is a disgrace in my view, being pushed through quickly as usual and will be used to bypass all types of checks and measures by the governmentā¦ there is no such thing as an independent committee. get real.
The current controversial state of emergency framework could be scrapped, Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton could lose his ability to make orders and give the Premier power to extend the pandemic in three months blocks if deemed necessary.
Premier Daniel Andrews could be given more power to declare pandemics and enforce emergency laws under legislation set to replace Victoriaās current state of emergency framework.
The Public Health and Wellbeing (Pandemic Management) Bill, set to be introduced in the lower house when parliament resumes on Tuesday, would allow Mr Andrews to make a pandemic declaration after discussing with the Chief Health Officer and extend it āthree months at a time, with no outer limit on the total duration of declarationā.
oh no! weāll have the same laws as nsw!
https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act-2010-127#sec.7
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Someone needs to have the power to activate emergency orders. The Liberals were complaining that Sutton had too much power when he held that authority. Now thereās complaints that the Premier has too much power if he holds it.
I hear the complaints, but no alternative proposal on who is to be entrusted with emergency powers.
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Over here itās the head cop who in the role of State emergency co-ordinator
And Iām sure thereās a big movement to strip him of that power.
Did you miss the part that it is the same as NSW and NZ, that it provides greater checks and balances, and all health orders have to be made public to justify the actions?
Doubt it, like Murdock media and the LNP you just focused on the bits that seemed scary.
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When did it change ?
We have always had the very wealthy who flaunted it disgracefully in virtually every country on earth. And people have reacted with violence to unjust treatment, and revolutions and over-throwing of Royalty and Government has been regular.
That said, there is less taste for revolution today than ever before. The comfortable middle class grows and most of the population are satisfied with their lot.
Oh no, a police state. Ahh, thatās ok, it is not a Labor state.
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Wealth inequality has been accelerating over the past 20 years.
This has a good breakdown of the complexities, but isnāt updated with current data.
There was an enormous shift of wealth into the hands of the uber rich during the pandemic.
Iām not saying that there is an imminent threat of revolution. What Iām saying is that this is an unsustainable trend. Thereās winners and losers in the current trajectory, the middle class is shrinking. More than half of the reduction in the middle class is people stepping up into the wealthy category, but thereās also a big chunk that are falling down into being classed as poor.
Wage growth for the poor has been stagnant in the US for 20 years. The population of poor is expanding rapidly. Thereās negligible social welfare support for this group. Businesses are becoming increasingly exploitative with their employment practices.
Trump harnessed the anger of the group that has seen their wealth plummet, that can see no future for their children. Itās not likely to result in overthrowing of the government, but things like riots and / or electoral chaos are going to happen at some point.
I guess Angus doesnāt want to release the modeling, because there isnāt any?
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