Stevie Pate
@stevie_pate
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Interested in politics, urban planning & media. Studied arts & comms. Child/teen actor of the 90's 🎬 I'd call myself washed up if I'd been more successful
Sydney
Joined June 2011
RT @Jim_Wackett: Over $95 BILLION passes through poker machines in NSW each year & there are still pokies in NSW with $10,000 load up limit….
smh.com.au
Mounties’ customers wagered $4 billion over a four-year period. But at least $140 million of those bets were placed by customers who should have been flagged as suspicious.
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RT @Peter_Fitz: Ten suspicious gamblers punted $140m at a Sydney club. No one allegedly noticed
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Mounties’ customers wagered $4 billion over a four-year period. But at least $140 million of those bets were placed by customers who should have been flagged as suspicious.
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RT @PhilKelly959078: Pokies: "Guys, as a 20-year service engineer for Aristocrat, I can tell you this: the outcome of a spin is predetermi….
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RT @TheRealPBarry: Unbelievable bollocks, even for @SkyNewsAust Quite remarkably bad and irresponsible.
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RT @TMFScottP: Jesus wept. When the government can't answer a simple question with a simple bloody straight forward answer, what hope do w….
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RT @Peter_Deppeler: WILD FOOTAGE of Sydney Harbour Bridge (2.15pm) with huge protest taking place right now.
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RT @RErbium: Over a third of the worlds pub and club poker machines are in NSW. Yes, you read THE WORLD. That is absolutely insane and a ho….
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RT @MarkSpeakman: The Minns Labor Government is in denial on poker machine harm and is too weak to tackle it.
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Residents lost $2.17billion to poker machines in the first quarter of 2025. This has consequences.
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RT @Peter_Fitz: Tks, JW. The stats are staggering. NSW has 0.1% of the world's population, but 37% of the world's pokies outside of casino….
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RT @Peter_Fitz: My Q & A with the Minister for Pokies. This man could cull the number of ‘misery machines’ in NSW. But he won’t https://t.c….
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Residents lost $2.17billion to poker machines in the first quarter of 2025. This has consequences.
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RT @Jim_Wackett: “The AUSTRAC prosecution demonstrates that the power wielded by the entertainment-gambling industrial complex is the bigge….
crikey.com.au
The money laundering regulator has targeted one of the biggest club chains in NSW for systemic breaches of money laundering laws involving poker machines.
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RT @Yes4CommonSense: Even when it’s blindingly obvious, the pollies can find a way to ignore the problem. #gamblingreform .
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NSW governments have promised gambling reform for years, but only the venues have changed.
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'Dirty money shifting from casinos to clubs and pubs sends a strong message to Macquarie Street that the problems identified by the Crime Commission three years ago have not gone away'
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NSW governments have promised gambling reform for years, but only the venues have changed.
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RT @Docstevens007: States and Territories incapable of regulating pokies venues, so the Feds step up. Both major parties and state and nati….
abc.net.au
The company that owns the most profitable pokie machine club in New South Wales is being taken to the Federal Court by the agency that investigates financial crime.
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RT @TroyStolz: Over 5 years ago I blew the whistle. Today AUSTRAC vindicated me. Thanks to @FaridYFarid
canberratimes.com.au
A financial regulator is launching legal action against Mounties, a club which operates some 1400 poker machines, over...
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RT @Jim_Wackett: No surprise. AUSTRAC finds evidence of money laundering through pokies in venues run by the the state’s largest club chain….
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The chief executive of AUSTRAC is concerned that the crackdown on casinos has displaced illicit activity into pubs and clubs.
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RT @JaquelineOutram: A gambling giant has been taken to court amid concerns of criminal money laundering through their poker machines. And….
canberratimes.com.au
A financial regulator is launching legal action against Mounties, a club which operates some 1400 poker machines, over...
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RT @MargaretHollin1: Kate S: "Poker machines are the most powerful they have ever been and they exploit human behaviour and neuroscience wi….
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The first time Kate Seselja used a poker machine she won $1000. It was the last time she left a venue with cash in her hand from the addictive machines.
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RT @Peter_Fitz: My Q& A, with reformed gambling addict. THe disgrace of the NSW pokies and government inaction. #NSWpol . Whether it’s Lib….
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The first time Kate Seselja used a poker machine she won $1000. It was the last time she left a venue with cash in her hand from the addictive machines.
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