LABOR'S diluted poker machine reforms allowing punters to voluntarily set bet limits are poised to go before parliament tomorrow after the Greens last night declared their support.
Tasmanian independent and key pokies reform campaigner Andrew Wilkie welcomed the backflip and said the move would allow a Canberra-based trial of the more robust alternative of mandatory precommitment to proceed. Mr Wilkie, who withdrew his support for Julia Gillard's minority government after the Prime Minister walked away from enforcing a scheme of mandatory precommitment, said the watered-down reforms now had the support they needed to pass the parliament.
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