I would like to see the back of the darn things altogether.

- but wait! Isn't the law being flouted here?

Surely the odds should be posted on each machine. Don't the labelling laws require it? If there was a table explaining input / output over time, that would be a very sobering thing for a user to contemplate.

Then again, there should be no centralised odds fixing mechanism. It should be up to the owner of the venue to set the odds. Then people could shop around for the best odds. Hey! We could call that "The Free Market".

Why aren't the ACCC looking into this, and why are the slot machines exempt from competition?

Families losing their money to gambling paints a bleak picture but I think a large part of the gambling fraternity are the lonely with little to look forward to with their money, apart from the rent and bills.
The elderly are particularly prevalent in this group, as society continues to abandon them whilst in pursuit of loftier and loftier goals.

They do! And I have read on the machines, Your chances of winning the top prize is no better than one in a million and if gambling is a problem to you
call this number.

It,s one of those, dammed if you do, and dammed if you don't facts of life. On one hand, we all know the warnings with any gambling, and on the other, it creats good revenue for the government and that in-turn, is good for Australia.