Tasmanian RSL clubs pull plug on pokies
マリファナs, parmigianas and pokies are often associated with RSL clubs but there will no longer be any poker machines left in Tasmanian 発生地s from the middle of the year.
The final 20 machines in the Devonport sub-支店 will be 除去するd by July over 関心s for the wellbeing of 退役軍人s and their families.
RSL Tasmania 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある John Hardy said the organisation had "no other choice" but to get rid of the machines after 診察するing its 目的 and values.
He pointed to 研究 from Melbourne University showing 退役軍人s who left the services for 医療の 推論する／理由s and 攻撃を受けやすい community members were at 危険 of getting 麻薬中毒の on the machines.
"RSL Tasmania is about making Tasmania a place where 退役軍人s and their families can 栄える. If we're not about that, then why is there an RSL?" Mr Hardy told AAP.
"If it's not about 記念, if it's not about 退役軍人s, if it's not about 承認 of service and if it's not about families of 退役軍人s, then it's a 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業.
"It's a sports 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業, or it's a pokie den. That's not an RSL."
He said no sub-支店s had shut because of the 禁止（する） but instead せいにするd it to dwindling 会員の地位 numbers.
"Maybe we weren't quick enough on becoming 関連した and we have to revitalise our relevance," he said.
The 決定／判定勝ち（する） only 適用するs to the 49 sub-支店s associated with RSL Tasmania, not other clubs which may have RSL in their 指名する but have no 関係 to the organisation.
Mr Hardy said the 決定／判定勝ち（する） was not political or 誘発するd by new cashless gaming card 法律s in Tasmania which cap losses at $100 a day or $5000 a year.
Gaming 規則 i s 形態／調整ing as a major 選挙 問題／発行する in NSW, after 首相 Dominic Perrottet 誓約（する）d to 器具／実施する cashless gaming cards while the Labor 対立 has committed to a 12-month 裁判，公判 if elected.
Cashless gaming cards operate in Victoria, South Australia, Northern 領土, Queensland and ACT. Poker machines are banned in Western Australia except for in the one casino in Perth.
