Cossomby, Banjo has covered many of the key practical issues.
For it to be of use it has to limit require some kind of registration, proof of identity etc by all users.
From the clubs perspective there is an assumption that a lot of casual users won't bother.
It's not going to cover all means of actual gambling so there are plenty of alternatives available for problem gamblers when the urge takes them and they've reached a limit on the pokies.

I would support changes to laws around use of substances by adults to take most of the underworld aspects out of the transaction as well as reduce the risks associated with contaminated products. I'm quite in favor of heavy penalties for bad choices involving the use of substances (if you drive under the influence you put the lives of others at risk).

Prohibition rarely works, it's a tool for creating opportunities for criminals and fosters an environment of lack of personal responsibility for choices.

R0bert

Labor is showing how to lead, I would-not take any notice of abbotts ramblings. He wants us all to go to church and live in the 50's. I do-not know how he is going to justify his denyalism with a straight face.
Naru, and turn the boats back, is a mineshaft. Before any of us know what this consists of, it is condemned by a person that thinks he is god. Labor must push forward with reforms.

Labor must push forward with reforms.
579,
why wait 4 years to do that ?

Malaysia is still being negotiated around the world.

579,

If Malaysia, then why not Nauru ? Its government has signed the necessary conventions.

Of course, on-shore processing is preferable, and release into the general community of all of those refugees whose claims have been found to be legitimate, if only to avoid situations like that of the poor guy who just took his own life in Villawood.

But with forty million refugees around the world, and perhaps (?) a hundred thousand who have applied on all the right forms to come to Australia while the annual intake is (?) 14,000, it's clear that there is a queue, of at least seven years at current processing rates. It's a hell of a problem for whichever party forms government.

Joe

What do you do when naru is full. Turn back sinking boats. Good idea, but not moral.
When Malasia does the processing they will stand in line as was meant to be.