# Roundup: Pokie reform, Christian viewpoints, Advent, hope

> If you’re legitimately against mandatory pre-commitment because you believe the seconds it will take you to determine how much you are prepared to lose on a high-loss machine are more valuable than helping those with a problem, then your mind is made.

8 December 2011 · News

Canonical: https://insights1.uca.org.au/articles/roundup-pokie-reform-christian-viewpoints-advent-hope/

## [Pokie reform will help people know when to fold ’em](https://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/pokie-reform-will-help-people-know-when-to-fold-em/)

If you’re legitimately against mandatory pre-commitment because you believe the seconds it will take you to determine how much you are prepared to lose on a high-loss machine are more valuable than helping those with a problem, then your mind is made. If you have your doubts because of something you’ve heard, read or seen – seek out the right information, from reputable sources – your fellow Australians deserve that much.

## [Australian Christian Lobby does not represent all Australian Christians, nor all Christian viewpoints](https://blogs.victas.uca.org.au/mediaroom/?p=971)

The Executive of the Victorian Council of Churches has expressed dismay at the one-sided view of Christianity portrayed in the Australian media.

## [The Advent we hope for](https://christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2011-12/advent-we-hope)

Our jumping the gun on Christmas before Advent is even properly underway is regrettable not so much because it violates a hard and fast rule regarding liturgical propriety but because it robs us of the gift of inhabiting fully a season of deep and necessary paradox – a lack in the life of faith that many church-goers feel keenly.

## [What does hope mean to you?](https://www.youtube.com/journeytelevision)

Beatriz Skippen, UnitingCare Community Prison Chaplain, speaks about what hope means to her.