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A million Australian pubgoers personal info listed on leak site (theregister.com)
5 points by jjgreen on May 2, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



To be clear this is the club side of pub: the rules here mean registered clubs and societies with a licence can serve cheaper booze and food. So it's the returned soldier league, the surf life Savers clubs and the bowls club, not a whitherspoons type pub. They make a lot of money running poker machines and bingo. The state is happy because they get 40% of the poker machine revenue and maintain traditional values like drinking a lot and gambling and saluting the portrait of the Queen at 5pm.

(I recommend Noosa Surf club: dolphins play along in the waves in the sunset as you eat prawns from a bucket and watch the sun go down)


> whitherspoons

I'll be using that ...


Wish I could say it was deliberate. But I also like it now more.




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