{"id":9310,"date":"2011-11-18T14:48:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T03:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=9310"},"modified":"2011-11-18T14:55:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T03:55:04","slug":"gambling-reform-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/11\/18\/gambling-reform-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling Reform Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I support the letter from the Australian Churches&#8217; Gambling Taskforce and encourage you to fill in the survey on gambling\/poker machine reform\u00a0as set out in the Churches&#8217;\u00a0Taskforce\u00a0letter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Good morning gambling reform advocates,<\/p>\n<p>Malcolm Turnbull, Liberal Member for Wentworth and Shadow Minister for Communications and Broadband is conducting a survey on poker machine reform as part of the Coalition\u2019s consultation on gambling reform.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Rev Tim Costello<\/span>, Chair of the Australian Churches Gambling Taskforce welcomes the survey. This video is also available on Malcolm Turnbull\u2019s site.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmturnbull.com.au\/media\/tim-costello-welcomes-problem-gambling-survey\/\">http:\/\/www.malcolmturnbull.com.au\/media\/tim-costello-welcomes-problem-gambling-survey\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The survey<\/span> contains useful links to research and data and will take about 15 minutes to complete.<\/p>\n<p>If you decide to complete the survey, it might be worth noting that the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Australian Churches&#8217; Gambling Taskforce supports<\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mandatory pre commitment measures on high intensity machines<\/li>\n<li>$1 maximum bets<\/li>\n<li>Removal of ATMs from gambling venues<\/li>\n<li>Additional resources for counselling<\/li>\n<li>Addressing live betting during sporting matches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Churches&#8217; Taskforce does<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> not support<\/span> *Voluntary pre commitment measures<\/p>\n<p>The survey is available here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malcolmturnbull.com.au\/uncategorized\/survey-on-problem-gambling\/\">http:\/\/www.malcolmturnbull.com.au\/uncategorized\/survey-on-problem-gambling\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For background on the Australian Churches&#8217; Gambling Taskforce\u2019s position please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamblingreform.org\/\">www.gamblingreform.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Members of the Australian Churches&#8217; Gambling Taskforce include the heads of the major Christian churches in Australia and their social services arms. <\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I support the letter from the Australian Churches&#8217; Gambling Taskforce and encourage you to fill in the survey on gambling\/poker machine reform\u00a0as set out in the Churches&#8217;\u00a0Taskforce\u00a0letter: Good morning gambling reform advocates, Malcolm Turnbull, Liberal Member for Wentworth and Shadow &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2011\/11\/18\/gambling-reform-survey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9310"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9321,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310\/revisions\/9321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}