{"id":573889,"date":"2010-05-20T21:45:58","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T01:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordonmoyes.com\/2010\/05\/21\/casino-control-amendment-bill-2010-text-of-speech-from-hansard\/"},"modified":"2010-05-20T21:45:58","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T01:45:58","slug":"casino-control-amendment-bill-2010-text-of-speech-from-hansard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/573889","title":{"rendered":"Casino Control Amendment Bill 2010 – Text of speech from Hansard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reverend the Hon. Dr GORDON MOYES <\/span>[8.59 p.m.]: On behalf of Family First I speak briefly to the Casino Control Amendment Bill; most of what I had wanted to say has been said by previous speakers. My concern about these issues goes back a long time—not just with regard to a prohibition on gambling but also with regard to setting up Gamblers Anonymous groups, working through Lifeline with gambling counselling services, and the establishment of gambling counsellors who later went on to serve literally throughout Australia.<\/p>\n

Members may recall that in the early 1980s Mr Justice Street headed an important commission of inquiry. I presented a major paper at that inquiry. Among the measures put forward to Mr Justice Street were a number of measures to reduce the possibility of criminal control over the new casino, to reduce compulsive gambling, and to set up rehabilitation programs for gamblers, for exclusion benefits which would be overseen by the police commissioner. One of the measures we put forward to Mr Justice Street was the setting up of the Casino Community Benefit Trust, whereby a portion of the casino profits would be ploughed back into the community. For many years—probably 15 years—I served as a government appointee on the Casino Community Benefit Trust and as a result was part of a group of people responsible for deploying many tens of millions of dollars back into the community.<\/p>\n

We always recognised that this was only really a token effort in terms of what a casino costs the community, particularly the impact on personal lives and disappointments experienced by so many families. I understand the overview of the bill and its objects, and I will support it. However, in the back of my mind I have grave reservations about it. It is a matter of agreeing to it with one’s fingers crossed, hoping that the best will come out. I place on record that Family First is opposed to all major extensions of gambling in the community as being unhelpful to families in general; we believe too much family money is spent by unwise gamblers. Nevertheless, I recognise that this is a legitimate and legal activity and we must continue to improve the controls. So, with my fingers crossed, I will vote in support of the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reverend the Hon. Dr GORDON MOYES [8.59 p.m.]: On behalf of Family First I speak briefly to the Casino Control Amendment Bill; most of what I had wanted to say has been said by previous speakers. My concern about these issues goes back a long time—not just with regard to a prohibition on gambling but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}