trading on peoples misery should be our motto…
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Not a good look for the club to be taking so much money out of local communities.
If we get rid of the licenses and someone else gets them then there is not much point. Licenses should be able to be destroyed.
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Exactly. Is it somehow a better outcome if Woolies ad another few million to their bottom line rather than the EFC who we at least see benefit from? People seem ok with their supermarket chain owning pokies but somehow its a moral dilemma if a footy club operates them - makes no sense. The club selling its licence doesn’t change the money being made from mostly problem gamblers. All it does is transfer the profits to a company I don’t care about.
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@JBOMBER Woolworths have divested themselves of poker machines. It seems they weren’t a good business to be in from a financial and reputation viewpoint.
Andrews can get farked, him and his Lefty views!
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While I agree, nothing about Dan’s views are very Left.
I think the correct term is demerger. Im pretty sure they simply broke off that division and made it a seperate company. They didn’t sell them to a 3rd party. From a financial viewpoint they are very good business.
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Woolies still own 12000 poker machine, spun off as a seperate business. So if Bombers 190 machines had turnover of $14 million, guess Woolies is about $930 million
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@Bacchusfox and @JBOMBER Woolworths own 9.1% of Endeavour Group. It is Endeavour Group that owns the pubs, pokies and pub bottle shops. Woolworths have kept the 9.1% as a way of keeping a relationship because they wholesale the alcohol to the bottle shops attached to the pubs. If they could, they would reduce their exposure to the pokies to zero due to reputational risk.
It’s interesting that a really well managed company like Woolworths would take this action. Perhaps the EFC could learn something from this.
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Yeah do a woolies, reduce their exposure to pokies whilst screwing everyone with price rises and monopolisation of the market. Great company.
That wasn’t quite what I had in mind, interesting direction.
They absolutely are!
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Hey, @percebushby , this Brady chap reckons Dan is a Left Winger !!!
I have racked my old brain trying to find a Left Wing State Government Action, but it is difficult. Have got anything to suggest.
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This may be outside the scope of Pokies licensing, but regardless of which wing you like to place him on, I’m not convinced about his competency on a few counts.
Why did we ever subscribe to a Chinese Belts and Roads program designed for greater influence over third world countries?
Why has the public service, particularly the Department of Health (DH) been cut, and continues to be cut?
WorkCover premiums have been significantly increased for Victorians this year, and will have to be paid by businesses, to cover a $1B shortfall. By all reports, a lot of this has come on the back of increased mental health claims in the public sector, which weren’t low prior to COVID.
I suspect a lot of smaller businesses haven’t even come to terms with, or passed on these increases to customers yet. At the top end for example, Tilers and Carpet Layers had premiums increase from 6.7% to 14%
I also wonder if cancelling the Commonwealth Games in the capitol of sports was the smartest move.
Our program with China was about two way investment and not “belts and road” infrastructure. Main goal was gaining and re-gaining export of Victorian produce and manufacturing to China, and Chinese Industry investing in manufacturing in Victoria. Would have been all good, except for COVID and Morrison being a turd.
Because COVID cost us a shitload of money and cuts in spending have happen. Health is just a black hole when it comes to money
Yep my Workcover premium doubled. Lots of claims and it has to be paid for. Tilers and Carpet layers and all Tradies have been going ok and pass all rises on to their customers. My office fitout went from $150,000 to $400,000, due to the massive prices increases of materials mostly. The cost to build my products has doubled in the past three years. Not sure you can blame any Australian Government on that one.
The question is really, why the Fark did they agree to do it in the first place.
In this case, Left = not as far Right as him.
I think most would argue Fan is the most left premier in Australia. Melbourne has, in my view, been diminished by a combination of green / left government infiltrating the city and its soul, mismanagement of infrastructure projects leading to the highest taxes and debt in the country and the disintegration of the cities reverted reputation for sporting events.
The vibe of the city has changed markedly, it’s too crowded, congested and people there are stressed, impatient and absorbed in their own lives with little regard for what’s going on around them. Melbourne is different. Covid and the way it was handled in Victoria has changed Melbourne and its whole being forever. Lastly, even his most ardent supporters would quietly agree his last 12 months have been poor, marred by mismanagement, chaos, scandal, corruption and a lack of accountability.
Just my view of course.
As you well know, Dan is a member of the “Socialist Left,” which is about as left as you can get in Victorian Labor, since Jim Cairns carked it. Over all, Labor “Left” is not particularly left-wing. (It’s a sick joke that Albo, probably the most right-wing Labor leader since the populist Hawke, is also supposedly a representative of “Labor Left”.)
Among the major reforms introduced by Dictator Dan we have the the ‘Big Build’ infrastructure projects, rental law reforms, voluntary assisted dying, legalisation of medicinal cannabis, adoption reforms, decriminalisation of sex work, first nations treaties, safe injection rooms, compensation reform for victims of institutionalised child-sex abuse (via the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse), and the introduction of exclusion zones for protests outside abortion clinics, none of which would have been introduced if Labor Right (aka Marles’ mates) had their way.
Dan’s cancellation of the pointless British Empire Games is another excellent decision of his - perhaps counterbalanced by the stupid decision to hold them here in the first place - which will save the State a couple of billion in futile expenditure. It’s a pity he isn’t also pushing ahead with the airport rail link, which is something we actually need.
Dan’s biggest weakness is his unwavering support for Victoria Police, no matter what brainless, even fascistic, action they come up with. I suspect his old man was a walloper.
It’s a pity he won’t go for Federal, and save us from Albo and his New South Wales pals who believe that the rest of Australia is only part of the Snydey Empire, to be ruled from the PM’s residence at Kirribilli.
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Staunch defender. Noted.
The DoH was cut a long time before COVID. Which was one of the key reasons we didn’t have enough staff to contact trace our way out like NSW did.
To be fair, we’ve added a regional type system more like NSW, but like all new systems, it’s going to take a period of time before it develops competency.