GetUp claims Nine is refusing to play its ad attacking Woolworths over pokie machines
Campaign group GetUp has accused the Nine Network of putting “profits over the health and safety of Australian families” after refusing to air its latest ad targeting supermarket giant Woolworths’ pokie machine ownership.
The group has been crowd-funding to get the ad, which pastiches Woolies Christmas campaign using families to show the impact poker machine addiction can have on people, shown on TV.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maH1ELpwSHU
However the group is claiming Nine is refusing to play the ad and has cited its commercial relationship with Woolies, which is one of the country’s largest advertisers, as the reason.
Nine are a business, Get Up are pests. Pretty simple.
If Nine was just a business they would be interested in making money from anyone. Even pests. Pretty simple.
I wonder how many Channel 9 shareholders (or CVC) also have shares relating to pokies?
Fair enough by Nine. If they run this, imagine all the crackpots lining up for them to air all their flavour of the week causes.
If Get Up REALLY care and aren’t just a bunch of SJW’s, then target everyone, not just Woolworths.
About six years ago I was invited to dinner by friends to the CLub Hotel in Ferntree Gully vic. I was astonished when told that all three pubs in Ferntree Gully were owned by Woolworths and all three pubs were huge poker machine venues. So many local people have lost so much money that they cannot afford to by food at the f/gully Woolworths. I would be pleased to see Woolworths the Poker Machine People be taken to task for the destruction the they have caused to families in our area.
A loss to a family is just another gain to Woolworths.
They are a low company and any one who has shares in Woolworths should get out while you still have a soul.
AHL stands for A Horrible Lie in my opinion. Having gambled in AHL pokie dens across australia I became a alcoholic and gambling addict thanks to non existence rsg and care factor of zero. Kicked out on the streets at 2.30 am, drunk , broke and unsafe. Maybe getup should show live footage outside AHL pubs across Australia at this time of night. Not once in 3 years did a AHL staff member offer gambling assistance which may have helped. I will never know. Thanks Woolworths for creating mini casinos across suburbia that takes money out of the local area and small business and leave a pub , a servo and pokie den left standing all owned in part by the fresh addiction people.