The recent Federal election had one surprising result. Several independents won office and managed to achieve the balance of power - and dictate who runs this country.
One of them had a " wowser " attitude to poker machines, and is using his position of power to try and regulate who can play the machines - what amount of money they will be permitted to gamble - and to put a curb on the amount they can lose at each session.
To go from the sublime to the ridiculous, it is proposed that each and every citizen who might like to have a flutter on the pokies will need to register with a central agency to create an identity - and that the nation's poker machines will have to be adapted to include a fingerprint reader to identify each player - and limit play to that persons permitted monetary value.
Whatever happened to personal freedom to make one's own decisions ?
Sounds like something the Stasi in East Germany would have dreamed up - if they didn't have all their citizens finger prints on file already !
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