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  • I agree to an extent.

    My opinion is we need a bit of a brute force approach to help correct how far off course compared to the rest of the world we are.

    Ban advertising.

    Tax the venues with pokies - rla revenue profit model that makes having them in clubs / pubs net negative to anyone running a venue.

    Tax online gambling, ban their advertising.

    Block non conforming online gambling sites.

    Etc.

    We are over 5 times the per capita spend of second place on gambling spend globally. Until we aren’t first things need to drastically change.
















  • I sound like a parrot repeating this.

    But

    The graph of gambling spend per capita is a nice straight line. From the minnows, all the way to 2nd place, it’s straight and direct. Small increments for each country.

    USA is second, average spend of $400 per capita. That’s pokies, horses, gambling, Vegas etc.

    1st place is Aus. $2400 per capita. 5 times second place.

    Aus needs to drastically change our gambling rules and regs. Ban advertising on all media forms including Internet. Block international gambling sites that don’t comply. Don’t associate odds with sports in any way. Pokies in pubs can fuck right off too. Tax that to the point where they serve no purpose to have on site.




  • Yep.

    I drove a non Tesla EV from Cairns to Sydney over a few days. It was pretty easy.

    The car planned the journey out for me. This included what chargers to use (which plug etc), how congested they were, rate of charge, cost etc.

    But it did take time. Each stop was 10-20 mins instead of 5 that I normally would have with fuel. Also the cost wasn’t that much cheaper due to all the highway driving (no Regen braking when you do 110kph for two hours non stop) - I worked it out it was $4 cheaper than petrol.

    I could have gone slower (80kph instead of 110), and not used superchargers (10 mins vs an hour)… But then what’s the point