Voters left in the dark: No democracy with hidden donations

Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, has called for urgent political donation reform as new analysis and data reveal the outrageous amount of dark money flowing to political parties in…

Call to end Crown’s protection racket

Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, has accused the Victorian Government of running a protection racket for Crown Casino and called for a Royal Commission to avoid another whitewash. The…

A statement on Tassie’s latest pokies figures

The October poker machine figures have been released and they show another big increase in losses compared with the same month last year. Indeed the $16,961,711 is up about $2m…

Crown Casino’s political protection racket continues

Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, today moved a motion in the Federal Parliament calling on the Government to establish a Royal Commission into Crown Casino. Neither the Government nor…

How low can the pokies industry go? Federal allows woman with severe cognitive disability to gamble

Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, will join a Salvation Army Captain to reveal  the Elwick Hotel allowed a woman with an obvious and severe cognitive disability to “put her…

Stop the spin and address the human misery caused by pokies

Talking Point published in the Mercury newspaper 3 September 2020. Just as seatbelts and drink driving laws made cars safer, we need measures to make poker machines safer. The tragic…