Rare bright spot in an area dogged by lobbying and political backflips

It’s 6.15am in one of Sydney’s biggest clubs, and a young mother of two is sitting alone, exhausted and terrified over how much cash she has just blown on the flashing machine in front of her. She will never see that money again – nor the $5000 she also spent the night before while the rest of the city slept.

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