Big call
The newspapers today are running a story on Russell Crowe trying to get rid of the pokies at his South Sydney Leagues Club - and forego the $7M a year they generate.
It’s unfortunate that most of the successful dinghy sailing clubs in NSW are also dependent on pokie revenue, with Belmont 16s, Manly 16s and the 18 footer League among them. If we didn’t have our pensioner’s social security cheques paying (at least partially) for our heavily subsidised (and expensive) racing boats… where would we be?
I hope Souths can make a go of it, and do some good, but in reality the punters are just going to move their pokie addiction somewhere else. Same goes for the sailing operations, we’d probably lose our fleets and the pub down the road would rake in the cash.
Sad but true.
September 19th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Funny that the same day South’s boot out Pokies because of there affects on society the state Labor Government approves Keno in Pubs. Maybe the extra revenue the government gets from tax’s can go towards funding the white elephant that is the desalination plant.