The Whitlams - Blow Up The Pokies, Live @ Mullumbimby

[AusAries2]

Stop blaming the government for peoples addiction. Take responsibility for your own actions and stop putting the fault on someone else!

[zigzag1234]

ive been to mullumbimby

[thenormanator1]

A beautiful lyric:

"...because they're taking the food off your table, so they can say that the trains run on time"

[Zsword92]

Very sad song. It's about how gambling ruin lives and destroy families, and the government does nothing about it.

[thenormanator1]

@Zsword92 Yeah man, it's fucking bullshit.

I just read this about poker machines in Australia on wikipedia " Revenue from gaming machines in pubs and clubs accounts for more than half of the $4 billion in gambling revenue collected by state governments in fiscal year 2002 – 03 "

It's fucking wrong. The goverment need to keep tearing apart families in Australia until they find another way of extracting billions of dollars from the public. It's insane

[Zsword92]

@thenormanator1 Yeah its totally wrong, some people just cant break the addiction and end up wasting most of their families money. The government needs to address the issue more importantly, just saying "gamble responsibly" doesnt do shit :-/

[thenormanator1]

P.s. Mullumbimby is a beautiful town. The whole of Northern Rivvers is an awesome part of Australia.

[peteboland1]

you are in Dubbo and you never heard of Mullum? Fair Dinkum mate . you needto read a newspaper or somethin lol

[pattygilmour]

beautiful

[kremer08]

when is pai coming back? replacement drummer is good though!

[JoeysBean]

I dont know.

I dont really know much about the whitlams.

[sw33tness666]

Pretty good quality. Handheld camera or phone?

[JoeysBean]

Camera.

[kremer08]

where is mullumbimby? no offence lol.

[newageworld]

just round the corner from Byron Bay.east coast australia

[kremer08]

ah ok just never heard of it (i am from dubbo)

[JoeysBean]

what newageworld said.

[thenormanator1]

@kremer08 It's on the east coast of Australia in the state of New South Wales.

It's in the far north end of the state, not far from the Queensland state border. The countryside and beaches around there are fantastic and the culture is great. The locals are friendly and very accommodating. The region is called 'Northern Rivers'. In this region are towns such as Byron Bay and Nimbin (the 'counter-culture' capital of Australia).