Australia News - Page 41

International News Brief: The Independent Gambling Authority is calling for 3,000 poker machines to be removed from the South Australian system.

International News Brief: An independent gaming body today recommended reducing the number of gaming machines in South Australia by 20 per cent.

International News Brief: The South Australian Independent Gambling Authority is being asked to investigate how the Adelaide Casino is able to use a note acceptor on its roulette wheel.

International News Brief: Tabcorp Holdings Ltd.'s proposal to bid for smaller gaming company rival Tab Ltd. won't be blocked by Australia's Competition & Consumer Commission.

International News Brief: The TAB board is caught in the awkward position of appearing to support an offer it knows it cannot support much longer while trying to talk down the appeal of a proposal that it knows is appealing.

International News Brief: Poker machines are apparently being shifted between venues by Victoria's two licensed operators in a bid to target problem gamblers, most of whom live in disadvantaged areas, the head of the state's gambling research body has alleged.

International News Brief: The Provincial Cities Association has renewed its calls for a cap on poker machine numbers in South Australia.

International News Brief: Melbourne’s Crown Casino abandoned caution and honoured a fake AUD$2.3 million cheque in its bid to woo a high-roller, the Victorian County Court was told today.

International News Brief: Tasmanians gambled more than AUD$2 billion last financial year with gaming machines leading the way, the Tasmanian Gaming Commission annual report shows.

International News Brief: Outspoken bookmaker Michael Eskander has called on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to push his cause for fairer trading on international feature races.

International News Brief: Measures introduced in pubs and clubs three years ago to help problem gamblers have had little effect, a survey of NSW club members has shown.

International News Brief: A new research centre is to open at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra to study gambling habits.

International News Brief: If people were serious about reducing problem gambling, gaming revenues to operators and governments would have to drop by up to 50 per cent, a gambling expert has said.

International News Brief: UNiTAB Ltd managing director Dick McIlwain says there are no hard feelings about Tabcorp Ltd's rival merger proposal with Tab Ltd.

International News Brief: Tabcorp's proposed $2.3 billion takeover of NSW TAB has won conditional support from some of its biggest competitors, the online sports betting agencies.

International News Brief: Australian gaming giant Tattersall's has blamed a $1.3 billion revenue downturn on the Victorian Government's smoking bans and other regulations.

International News Brief: More than 100 pubs and clubs have been given an exemption on shutting down poker machines for six hours every day.

International News Brief: Confidential documents are showing that some Sydney pubs are selling little beer across the bar while making nearly all their money from pokies.

International News Brief: Adelaid’s Skycity Casino has overhauled its security after a gunman spent more than an hour inside the gambling venue.

International News Brief: The Australian cricket team was given free gambling chips by Melbourne's Crown Casino to repay them for patronising the venue, according to a book by a former Australian Cricket Board chief executive.