Leading gambling researcher says it is “appalling” the Palaszczuk government will not release key documents behind the Queen’s Wharf development.
Regardless of the inquiry’s findings, Livingstone doubted the Queensland government would revoke Star’s licence.“You’d have this bazillion-dollar white elephant on the foreshore on the northern side of Brisbane River,” he said.
Livingstone, whose research specialities included gambling harm, believed the casino would be an “epic disaster” because it was “a gigantic venue for Brisbane people to lose all their money”.“Nobody travels around the world to go to casinos anymore because there are casinos pretty much everywhere you go,” he said.
“Most of the revenue from casinos in Australia comes from ordinary people playing pokies and there’s no reason to think that’s going to be any different in Queensland.”
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