Zoe Samios
Reporter at Australian Financial Review
Covering gaming and sports business @FinancialReview | Ex media writer @smh @theage & @australian | Views are my own | [email protected]
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afr.com | Zoe Samios
May 12, 2025 – 2.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? More than seven years have passed since billionaire poker machine king Len Ainsworth sold a majority stake in his namesake company to Austrian family business Novomatic.
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afr.com | Zoe Samios
May 12, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Nine Entertainment and its streaming service Stan will broadcast the men’s and women’s rugby World Cup tournaments in Australia under a long-term deal designed to cement the media company as the home of the sport.
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afr.com | Zoe Samios
May 10, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Former prime minister John Howard has declared poker machines a “grave social evil” and demanded that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese lead the charge for national gambling reform. “Governments are elected to do things,” Howard told AFR Weekend.
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afr.com | Zoe Samios
May 9, 2025 – 12.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Nat reckons today could be his day. He’s “feelin’ real lucky”. Over a couple of hours, the $5 he fed into Lightning Cash at the Todd Tavern in Alice Springs has grown to $26, betting 20¢ a spin. “I’m gunna take the family out for a real big feed at KFC tonight,” he says with pride.
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afr.com | Andrew Hobbs |Zoe Samios
Tim Hamilton’s uncle managed the North Sydney Bears for 30 years. In his playing days, the now 57-year-old was good enough to compete for the club in the Jersey Flegg Cup – NSW’s under-21s rugby league competition. But he drifted away from the team when it fell out of the premiership league 25 years ago, after being a foundation club in a NSW competition that has since grown into an increasingly national behemoth, with multibillion-dollar broadcasting deals. Loading...
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