{"id":25364,"date":"2011-03-30T01:50:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T01:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/new_scheme_would_offer_problem_gamblers_some_protection\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T01:50:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T01:50:33","slug":"new_scheme_would_offer_problem_gamblers_some_protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25364","title":{"rendered":"New scheme would offer problem gamblers some protection, says Australian bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Footballer Brendan Fevola has been urged again this week to seek more help for his alleged gambling addiction. This follows another visit to the pokies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrendan\u2019s is a case study in why the Australian Church&#8217;s Gambling Taskforce urged this week the adoption of a national pre-commitment scheme that is mandatory in all gambling machine venues,\u201d\u009d said Bishop Philip Huggins today.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Huggins, who is the Chair of the Melbourne Anglican Social Responsibilities Committee, said such a scheme requires gamblers to choose and stick to their gambling limit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melbourne.anglican.com.au\/NewsAndViews\/Pages\/New-gambling-program-082.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footballer Brendan Fevola has been urged again this week to seek more help for his alleged gambling addiction. This follows another visit to the pokies. \u201cBrendan\u2019s is a case study in why the Australian Church&#8217;s Gambling Taskforce urged this week<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25364\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,50,395,74,204,168,87,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-australia-nz","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-gambling","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}