25th July 2002, 09:03 AM
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You're going to love this TheDuck - would you believe that we are not allowed to bet with Lasseters!!!
Our government, in their infinite wisdom, decided that they would take a stand against the evils of gambling - so did they try to limit the number of poker machines (the biggest cause of gambling problems in this country)? No they decided to ban Australians from using on-line gambling services that are based in Australia! We can gamble all we like on overseas sites but not with Australian sites! Logically you would have thought it was far better to simply regulate the Australian sites to require them to report suspected problem gamblers (eg. people who lose more than $x per year) so that there is some chance of helping those people but instead they just forced anyone who wants to use on-line casinos to use overseas sites. The argument was that people would be wary of using overseas sites because of the chance of losing their money if site was dishonest - excuse me but aren't we talking about GAMBLERS here???
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