{"id":9857,"date":"2012-01-18T12:02:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T01:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=9857"},"modified":"2012-01-18T14:17:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T03:17:27","slug":"anglicanmedia-release-poker-machine-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2012\/01\/18\/anglicanmedia-release-poker-machine-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Media Release: Poker Machine Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>ANGLICAN MEDIA TASMANIA<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Tuesday 17<sup>th<\/sup> of January 2012<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">MEDIA RELEASE:<\/h3>\n<p>The Anglican Bishop of Tasmania, John Harrower, is today making the following comment with regards to Poker Machine reform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very concerned that the health of Australian Society, and the safety and livelihood of many Australian families, is being overtaken by parliamentary opportunism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cost of poker machines as they are currently operated far outweighs any perceived benefit.\u00a0 The government should not give in to pressure from vested interests who are concerned with protecting profits ahead of caring for people and building our nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Anglican Church in Tasmania has consistently called for increased regulation, including $1 bet limits, and we have encouraged Andrew Wilkie on this issue.\u00a0 The members of our churches and the workers in our agencies see every day the real effect on families and children of this exploitative industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI call upon Prime Minister Gillard to maintain her commitment to the proposed reforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI call upon the Opposition to shape Coalition policy around Australian values by giving clear support to poker machine reform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Coalition values individual responsibility they will support a system that ensures patrons can make an informed, free decision about how much they will lose.\u00a0 If the Coalition values rewarding hard work they will back reforms so that pay-packets are not at risk to the false promise of vain chance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis issue requires the good politics of action, not politicking and plays for power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Due to prior commitments Bishop Harrower is unavailable for interview but will consider specific questions sent to <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:bishop@anglicantas.org.au\">bishop@anglicantas.org.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You may also read the media release on our website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicantas.org.au\/index.php?item=file&amp;target=media_release_17_Jan_2012\">here<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The media release was reported on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2012-01-18\/church-leaders-plead-for-poker-reform\/3780084?section=tas\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANGLICAN MEDIA TASMANIA Tuesday 17th of January 2012 MEDIA RELEASE: The Anglican Bishop of Tasmania, John Harrower, is today making the following comment with regards to Poker Machine reform. \u201cI am very concerned that the health of Australian Society, and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2012\/01\/18\/anglicanmedia-release-poker-machine-reform\/\">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\/9857"}],"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=9857"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9887,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857\/revisions\/9887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}