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West HQ chief executive Richard Errington.

The crusading club boss and his $1.7m side hustle

The gaming regulator is examining a Rooty Hill club’s decision to outsource a scoping study to its own CEO.

  • Harriet Alexander and Nigel Gladstone

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Bowlers Terry Wright (left), Joanne Livingstone (centre) and local Asren Pugh want their club re-opened under community control.

‘They’re laughing at us’: How a community lost its beloved bowlo

Norths Leagues Club promised to fix the Bangalow Bowlo’s dilapidated clubhouse when they went into partnership. Now it’s using the state of the clubhouse to justify its decision to close the club.

  • Harriet Alexander
Reverend Bill Crews has thrown his support behind a push for poker machine reform at the next election.

‘We see the human cost’: Reverend Bill Crews joins call for cuts to pokies

The Uniting Church minister is backing a proposal by Inner West Mayor Darcy Byrne that would also give MPs a conscience vote on reform in the NSW parliament.

  • Michael McGowan
Pokies galore – let’s say 90,000 of them, through which NSW punters lost $9.3 billion last year.

‘Sorry, but’: Why the premier won’t let pokies risk his election jackpot

Some Labor figures want a big reduction in NSW’s 90,000 poker machines. Voters shouldn’t bet on it.

  • Michael McGowan
Premier Chris Minns said he was ‘sorry’ pokies had become ‘ubiquitous’ in NSW, but that reforms significantly cutting the number of machines would be too costly

The battle over pokies comes to premier’s backyard

Premier Chris Minns is “sorry” poker machines are so common in NSW pubs and clubs, but says it would be prohibitively expensive to pay compensation if numbers were slashed.

  • Michael McGowan and Jessica McSweeney
Union NSW boss Mark Morey, left, and Inner West Mayor Darcy Byrne, right, are gearing up to challenge Premier Chris Minns on poker machine reform

Minns faces internal push for action on poker machines

Senior figures from the NSW Labor left and right factions are going to challenge the Minns government over pokies.

  • Michael McGowan
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Patrons gamble on the poker machines at Bankstown Sports Club.

Second mega-club in firing line over dirty cash claims

The state’s top two most profitable clubs by gambling revenue are believed to have allowed organised criminals to use their poker machines to launder money.

  • Harriet Alexander
AUSTRAC chief executive Brendan Thomas said criminals were still moving “extraordinary volumes of cash” across venues in a way that was highly indicative of laundering.

Safe sticker company at the centre of money-laundering scandal

Daniel Symond was once the clubs’ most trusted adviser. But a blockbuster prosecution has raised questions about what exactly he knew.

  • Harriet Alexander and Bevan Shields

The 691 alarm bells, warning signs and missed chances that allowed criminals to thrive

Mounties, with as many club members as Wollongong does residents, allowed highly suspicious players to carry on for years without action.

  • Bevan Shields and Harriet Alexander
Mounties is being sued by AUSTRAC over money laundering.

The ‘housewife’, the ‘childcare worker’ and the gigantic scam flourishing in Sydney

A damning cache of documents has laid bare the extent to which criminality has been allowed to take place in well-known venues.

  • Bevan Shields and Harriet Alexander