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Greens leader Shane Rattenbury has signaled a bright future for Canberra’s clubs which involves less of a reliance on poker machine revenue, as the industry expressed optimism about his appointment as the ACT’s new gaming minister. A long-time campaigner for pokies reform, Mr Rattenbury’s appointment to the position in Andrew Barr’s new cabinet sparked immediate questions about the future of the clubs sector. It came after the Greens successfully lobbied Labor to include a number of gambling harm reduction measures in their parliamentary agreement, including a…