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20.05.12

JOHN Key's deal with SkyCity Casino to bankroll a convention centre in exchange for more pokies appears to have stirred up more public and media outcry than the prime minister or anyone else would have expected.

The drivers for this reaction are complex.

Part of it can be put down to increasing concerns about the widespread negative impacts gambling is having on our loved ones and in our communities.

Part of it can be put down to the unhealthy alliances that appear to be forming between politicians and the barons of addictive-consumption industries such as alcohol and gambling. But probably the most galling aspect of this deal is the lack of public visibility and accountability.

Mr Key has clearly joined a long line of politicians who have approached gambling as a quick-fix for challenging (and expensive) social and economic development issues and who have set up arrangements with little regard for public views on the matter.

Way back before the 1990s, New Zealanders enjoyed two main forms of gambling: track betting and the Golden Kiwi – low-intensity, low-potency forms of betting. Gambling boomed in the 1990s. In 1991 pokies arrived, then casinos, then different lottery products. The rapid proliferation catapulted us into more potent forms of gambling and, accordingly, into losing 10-fold the amounts of money we had previously.

Source: The Dominion Post