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Wasn’t their response to disregard it? I recall seeing Labor ball suckers on Reddit saying they’re keeping the ads because of possible job losses.
‘w3 n33d 2 w3@n tHeM oFf AdZ’ was one classic I saw.
No, there hasn't even been that, officially. There's been no response at all. A response of "thanks but no thanks" would at least put it on the record, but they haven't gone that far.
Yeah they’re fucking disappointing. The position that it will cost jobs is bullshit.
Labor gonna labe.
It's not actually related to the review into online gambling from 2023, but your comment reminds me of the pokies issue. We're constantly told that pubs and clubs have to be allowed to have pokies, because otherwise they'd go out of business and lose jobs! Never mind the fact that things seem to work completely fine in Western Australia. They worked fine in Queensland (with the exception of some people nipping over the border to Tweed) until 1992. And they work fine in the entire rest of the world that largely don't permit rampant pokies in non-gambling venues.
Sure, it would be a problem to remove something they've been reliant on for so long overnight. But a gradual, phased reduction of pokies in pubs and clubs on a clear timetable would certainly not be harmful.
Exactly, their PR people ran the same line they run on poker machines. In fact a couple of them folded the two together with the rationale of ‘people going to the local pub to watch the races and have a bit of a punt’, you know the shit they trot out.
As I mentioned before the best one I heard was ‘they have to be weaned off’. This is companies like Sportsbet, as if they need legislative backing to profit.