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NSW Clubs’ awards nights celebrates the misery pokies inflict

The state clubs were celebrated for incredible support that they provided their communities on the night of 2025 Clubs and Community Awards. To help feed unprotected families, to finance vital medical equipment in hospitals and to help reduce post -traumatic stress disorder between veterans, the NSW clubs have once again demonstrated the various ways they have made better places to live their communities.

Bulanık, who was sent from the strong gambling lobby clubs this morning NSW, attended the Sydney Congress Center by 900 guests. These guests were inevitably included in the NSW Labor Party representatives (“Night Economy Minister John Graham, Minister of Business and Tourism Steve Kamper”). Clubs have a lot to thank NSW to thank NSW Labor. Rotten Minns government Pushing for non -cash poker machines.

“Clubs and Community Award Night” is a part of the propaganda of gambling lobby by gambling addicts and criminals (not to mention generous tax cuts) through poker machines because the clubs spend a lot of money on community support.

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This is nonsense. According to a study by NSW RSLIn 2023, clubs spent only 3.5% of its billion dollar profits on communities. This is a backup Long -term work of Victorian RSLsHe showed only 1.5% of gambling income to the welfare of veterans.

In propaganda exercise last night, many of the “winners” are another, in a much more important field winners: to increase the profits of poker machines.

For example, take the MT Pritchard, who won the “Art, Culture and Entertainment” award. Dublaj by news corp The Mounties, which is “Pokie Pokie Mecca” for 600 game machines Review by Austrac. Local Government Area (LGA) Based Data Liquor and Game NSW In Fairfield LGA, where Mounties constitutes more than 18% of all club poker machines – clear snow per machine (well losses from gambling) At the end of 2023, $ 34,398, at the end of 2024, at the highest level of any LGA in NSW rose to $ 35,868.

Or last night, there is Wests Leagues Club in Leumeah, the co -winner of the “Social Inclusion” category. If your idea of ​​social inclusion endures a difficult -to -win Pokie, Wests is your goal: Liquor and Game NSW data shows that the club has risen from $ 2024 to $ 2024 at the end of 2023 at Campbelltown LGA where the club is located. This turns out to exceed $ 200, a net profit of $ 289 in LGA.

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The Wests leagues share these honors with eight clubs in the Campbelltown region, but Campbelltown Catholic Club, which creates 441 machines 29%, has one -third of the machines in Campbelltown. Campbelltown Catholic Club was a common second in the “Mental Welfare” award (yes, an industry completely dependent on gambling dependence on Chutzpah has a “mental welfare award, I am not shit). Probably 441 poker machine did a lot to help reduce post -traumatic stress disorder.

Or there is Revesby Workers Club, the joint winner of the “The Heart of the Community” award, which has 14% of all club poker machines in Canterbury-Bankstown LGA. Considering poker machines and the greedy gambling lobby that makes a Motza from them, it is an appropriate award in the heart of NSW politics, especially when he is a worker. Net profit per machine in Canterbury-Bankstown rose from $ 26,000 to $ 27,348 at the end of 2023 and the net profit per person increased from $ 281 to $ 295.

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Or Windsor RSL, the winner of the “Education” award at Hawkesbury LGA, is one -third of all the machines in the region. Windsor Rissole seems to be doing a job to train the good burgers of the Hawkesbury region to pour money from the throats of their machines: LGA has seen a net snow from $ 118 from $ 14,940 to $ 16.550 – and $ 118. Well done because I won to Windsor, gentlemen.

And how can we pass the second in the “Environmental Sustainability” award, Taj Mahal from NSW Pokie Palaces, St George Leagues Club constitutes about 360 machines of all club machines in Georges River LGA? In this area, net profit per machine increased to $ 25,000 at the end of 2024 at only $ 22,000 in 2023. This rose from $ 237 to $ 271. If success continues to throw St George in the foot area, you cannot question the success of tearing more money than gambling addicts.

Of course, it was the missing “best lobbying” award. But there is no need to mention that, right? These NSW clubs. His name is constantly engraved in the cup. What a support for everyone in the “Premier State”.

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