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POLITICIANS and newsreaders are being irresponsible by posing in front of poker machines during Prime Minister Julia Gillard's five-day visit to Rooty Hill in western Sydney, anti-gambling campaigners say.

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The Nine Network broadcast its evening news bulletin with pokie lights flashing in the background at the Rooty Hill RSL on Monday.

So colossally does the Rooty Hill RSL Club loom over Western Sydney that for the past several years it has waged a campaign demanding its own postcode. Within its grounds are a full Novotel and bowling alley. Its gaming floor is a sea of hundreds of poker machines. The Rooty Hill RSL Club is in the electorate of Chifley held by Labor backbencher Ed Husic. NSW Office of Liquor and Gambling Regulation statistics in 2010-11 show people in Chifley lost $113 million on 1532 poker machines. The casinos group also recently held an event at West HQ – formerly known as Rooty Hill RSL – which was limited to existing Crown customers. It also approached Bankstown RSL early this year about holding an event but it never went ahead because COVID-19 forced the club to shut, according to club chief executive Mark Condi.

Labor ministers Anthony Albanese and David Bradbury were interviewed by Sky News in front of gaming machines at the venue.

Monash University gambling expert Charles Livingstone has told AAP that shows 'how far we have to go' before people understand gambling addictions.

'Would either of those people conduct interviews or news programs in front of a bar full of people drinking too much or a room full of people smoking?' Dr Livingstone asked.

'It just demonstrates that politicians don't get it, these are dangerous goods.

'Seeing someone standing in front of a row of poker machines, (on television) in some cases could be enough to get people into difficulty,' he said.

Poker machines should not be shown on television when children are watching, he said.

Rooty Hill, known to some as the 'Vegas of the west', has more than 700 gaming machines.

Dr Livingstone said the fact the social fabric of western Sydney was wound up with poker machines was worrying.

'Those places make an awful lot of money out of people who can ill afford to lose it,' he said.

The Rooty Hill RSL Club is in the electorate of Chifley held by Labor backbencher Ed Husic.

NSW Office of Liquor and Gambling Regulation statistics in 2010-11 show people in Chifley lost $113 million on 1532 poker machines.

Each machine netted $73,000, with the losses equating to $1058 per adult in an electorate where the average person's income is $423 per week.

Anti-gambling campaigner independent senator Nick Xenophon said senior politicians appeared to be 'joined at the hip' to the poker machine industry.

'The irony is that people who are hurt most by poker machines are the battlers, the constituents who are supposed to be (Labor's) core concern,' he said.

Comment has been sought from the Nine Network and Sky News.

A spokesman for Mr Albanese said it was not the minister's choice of location but he was in the broadcaster's hands.

Originally published asMinisters slammed for posing with pokies

The New South Wales government has cemented the near term financial fate of James Packer’s Crown casino at Sydney’s Barangaroo, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.

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The government inked a deal with rival The Star, confirming it as the exclusive casino rights operator of poker machines for the next 21 years.

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Crown’s lobbying efforts to alter the terms of its existing agreement that would have banned pokies had been determined and abiding.

Over the year, the lobbying was spearheaded by Crown executive and former national secretary of the Labor Party Karl Bitar and former federal Labor minister Mark Arbib.

Government insiders have suggested that Crown came close to signing a memorandum of understanding a few years ago with then-NSW opposition leader Luke Foley to revisit Crown’s poker machine machine.

Under the government agreement signed with The Star, if the exclusivity deal is altered, the incumbent casino pokie operator will receive nonspecific compensation.

Many casino analysts had assumed a strong likelihood Crown would ultimately be successful in its quest to remove the slot ban.

The Star’s share price initially spiked more than four per cent Monday and the regulatory certainty on slots was one of the main reasons.

The partial reopening of Star’s Sydney casino complex on Monday and a new tax deal with the NSW government were the other two pieces of news that sent shares higher.

For Crown, having its poker machine ambitions thwarted places additional pressure on the economics of its Sydney casino, whose licence approval was originally successful on the basis that it would be an ultra VIP casino that would cater to Asian high rollers rather than the Australian market.

Not only did the international VIP market fall after Crown employees were arrested in China in 2016, but COVID-19 has successfully killed international tourism for an unknown period, impacting all Australian casinos.

Additionally, the growing diplomatic tension between Australia and China may lead to heightened pressure from the Chinese government to discourage VIP punters spending in Australian casinos.

Gone too are the hopes that Lawrence Ho’s Melco could help funnel VIP players into Crown.

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Melco bought a 10 per cent stake in Crown from Packer last year and agreed to increase his holding to 19.9 per cent.

The second tranche of the deal was later abandoned and Melco sold its 10 per cent a month ago.

James Packer's Barangaroo challenge against the NSW government https://t.co/FKrI0wt85h

— @DrSalGainsbury (@DrSalGainsbury) June 2, 2020

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Doubts cast over Crown Resorts’ Sydney VIP market

Gaming giant Crown Resorts has been wooing punters at some of Sydney’s largest clubs and RSLs, as doubts grow about visits from Chinese high rollers when its new Barangaroo casino opens next year.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported last month that the $6 billion group held an invite-only event at one of the city’s most profitable pokies venues, Fairfield RSL, on February 6.

It invited 24 of the club’s loyal patrons and around 100 of Crown’s existing loyalty members who visited its existing Melbourne and Perth casinos.

Crown representatives were on hand to sign RSL members up to its Crown Rewards loyalty program at the event.

The casinos group also recently held an event at West HQ – formerly known as Rooty Hill RSL – which was limited to existing Crown customers.

It also approached Bankstown RSL early this year about holding an event but it never went ahead because COVID-19 forced the club to shut, according to club chief executive Mark Condi.

The ASX-listed casino giant declined to comment on its relationship with clubs and RSLs and would not say whether additional events will be held at Sydney locations.

In a statement, Crown chief executive Ken Barton said that Crown Sydney “has always, at its heart, been a destination designed for both Sydneysiders and visitors alike.”

“We are looking forward to opening our doors later this year and playing our part to help boost the domestic travel and tourism economy,” he said.

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Alliance for Gambling Reform advocate Tim Costello said Crown’s involvement with clubs appeared to be an “attempt to enlist locals” for its new casino.

“Loyalty programs are just absolute gold, and this, in my view … there is no doubt it’s just to sign up people for Barangaroo,” Mr Costello said.