Day: 19 January 2018

Tasmania’s gaming behemoth Federal Group has pledged to deliver a campaign against the Labor Party’s attempts to remove pokies from local clubs and pubs. Recently, the Tasmanian Labor Party revealed its gaming policy aimed at removing the so-called poker machines from the suburbs and restrict the offering of such electronic gaming machines to the state’s two casinos from 2023. The gambling company, which has been holding the state’s monopoly on gaming license for years, announced its intention to make everything possible to prevent such a measure to be imposed. Federal…

Despite authorities’ and operators’ promises to keep gambling companies’ logos away from merchandise for young people, thousands of children still purchase and wear replica football shirts featuring gambling adverts. For the time being, the junior teams of nine Premier League teams that have been sponsored by gambling operators do not have their shirts displaying the betting firms’ logos as part of an agreement reached by the gambling sector and the clubs. However, as The Daily Mail revealed, for three of these clubs, the maximum size of the junior kits go…