KEEPING IT REAL ON POKIES: Moral panic on pokies continues to scale absurd heights

Gambling addiction is a serious problem and it’s right that addicts are given every assistance to beat their problem. Suggesting only pokies players are victim to it is clearly wrong according to every serious study of gambling and the double standards of some in the media over other forms of gambling where the “losses” are even greater than pokies reveals a silly moral panic over poker machines that needs to stop.

In Victoria’s conservative Western District, Liberal MP, locals fight for Chinese families to stay

Those assuming there’s not much support for immigration in regional Australia should note the story of a Liberal MP and Warrnambool locals who are fighting for six Chinese families who are set to be deported….…

Wasps sting villagers. Villagers call in the army. The People’s Liberation Army. Hilarity ensues.

Wasps were giving a Chinese village a difficult time, even killing a man. So they asked the kind and gentle folk of the People’s Liberation Army to assist them in managing the issue.

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