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home / archives / people and social issues / gambling / 21st February 1991

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On getting out of recession...

Premier Joan Kirner advanced plans for the first casino for Victoria, later opened in 1994. All sides of politics were in favour of the casino as apart from being a local and a tourist venue the tax revenues for the state were seen to be lucrative.

At the time Victoria's economy was going deeper into recession.