Canberra Gambling Reform Alliance Questions Hotels Calls for pokies in more Canberra Venues The Canberra Gambling Reform Alliance is today questioning the Australian Hotel Association’s (AHA) call for hotels to be allowed to place pokies in their venues. Given the recent evidence of the significant harm caused by pokies, the Alliance does not believe the…
21 June 2017. Anglicare Australia has called for the Centrelink automated debt recovery process to be suspended. The call is made ahead of the release of the Senate Inquiry’s robodebt report. “This system has no human oversight – and it puts the onus back on ordinary people to correct robotised errors,” said Anglicare Australia Executive…
12 June 2017. Residents in and around the Canberra suburb of Gordon can look forward to a greater level of community support with the launch of the Gordon Community Centre. Saturday 3 June marked the official launch of the centre which is a partnership between Anglicare and the Lanyon Valley Anglican Church. Community members, staff,…
08 June 2017. The Canberra Gambling Reform Alliance is calling for urgent action to close the EFTPOS loophole in ACT clubs in the wake of last week’s release of a damning investigation into the practices in clubs which found that venues are actively encouraging patrons to access cash through alterative means to ATMs. “While the…
