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MEDIA RELEASE
NICK XENOPHON M.L.C. INDEPENDENT NO POKIES
MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 8th March 2004
POKIES BARONS COMPENSATION BI TELL’ EM THEY’RE DREAMING
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Call on AHA to
release its legal opinion. · No Pokies MLC offers pokies barons free legal advice. No
Pokies MLC Nick Xenophon has called on the State Government to tell SA’s
pokies barons that “they’re
dreaming” over their bid for compensation for any reduction in poker
machine numbers. Media
reports that the Australian Hotels Association has sought legal advice from
Francis Nelson QC, and from and interstate QCs have brought a sharp rebuke from
the No Pokies MLC. Mr.
Xenophon pointed to a key finding of the Productivity Commission’s Report into
“This
is an industry that makes a huge proportion of its profits off the back of the
vulnerable and the addicted”. Mr.
Xenophon also challenged the AHA to release the sixteen page legal opinion from
Francis Nelson QC, and offered his legal services “for free” to give a second opinion on Ms Nelson’s advice. Mr.
Xenophon will be outside the AHA Headquarters (with a violin) on
Written
and authorised by Nick Xenophon, 653 Lower North East Road, Paradise, SA 5075
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