Greater Dandenong Council needs to work at reducing, not increasing, the number of poker machines in a municipality. Adults living in Melbourne’s poorest area, Greater Dandenong, ’lose more on machines than those who live in any other local government area. For every adult who lives in Greater Dandenong, $1110 was lost on poker machines, and the median individual weekly income of residents is only $426. By contrast, in Boroondara, one of the state’s most affluent municipalities, the median individual income per week was $836 and the amount lost to pokies per adult was the lowest of any Melbourne municipality — $153 in 2010-11. DOXA is most unwelcome in Dandenong.
Keith Donovan, Dandenong
