
Many years ago I was a guest of the Ainsworth Leisure Corporation in Australia. Ainsworth’s make the Aristocrat brand gaming machines at their sprawling factory in Rosebank, a suburb of Sydney. At the time I was the chairman of the New Zealand Licensing Trusts Charitable Foundation. The foundation owned and operated all of the gaming machines in most of the 26 licensing trusts in New Zealand, so in a roundabout, but unjustified sort...