Gambling

Dunedin City Council staff are again recommending the council sticks with the status quo on gaming venues and machines in the city, rather than adopting a sinking-lid policy.

Although the poker machines in Arrowtown do not appear to be used to capacity, more machines may exacerbate existing problems in the community, a submission against a proposal for nine new machines says.

New Zealand hip hop heavyweight Scribe is coming to Dunedin to share his personal struggle with pokies.

Pokie machines prey on an ancient part of the brain to turn ordinary people into losers, writes Catherine Masters, of the NZ Herald.

SkyCity wants more cashless gambling machines that are banned in other casinos in the country, as part of a deal with the Government in exchange for investing $350 million in a national convention centre.

The notion that the future of sport in this country might rely on picking the pockets of people with gambling addictions sticks in the craw.

A Dunedin-based national trust is demanding answers after a poker machine licence was issued to the Christchurch Earthquake Recovery Trust.

A Queenstown man appeared in court yesterday after he stole $4195 from his employer to fuel his gambling addiction, even taking the money during early-morning casino binges.

The resignation of Willie Ripia from the Western Force due to alleged pick-pocketing from his team-mates brings his promising rugby career in Australia to an embarrassing and premature end.