With the AFL season behind us, Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium has become available for other uses. One of these took place recently when the Gaming Executive Summit Australasia was held there, from 12-14 October. One of the key speakers was our own Sen. Nick Xenophon, and his speech was an absolute cracker.

Here is the transcript of Nick’s speech. Enjoy.

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Take a look through the pokie-related news stories of the past few days, and one name pops up nine times out of ten. Andrew Wilkie, Independent soon-to-be Federal MP for Dennison. Wilkie has been receiving broad national coverage for his stance on a number of issues, primarily pokies reform, and his insistence that any major party wishing to deal with him will have to go a long way towards accomodating his list of priorities.

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I was wondering if this would happen, and I’m glad it has! Stephen Mayne nominated for the Victorian Senate earlier today, and now it seems Senator Nick Xenophon has endorsed his campaign ahead of Chris Pyne.

Pyne, a Coalition frontbencher recently tried to use a statement made by Xenophon, referring to him as an “incredibly effective politician”, on an advertising billboard… but Xenophon said no to the idea.

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