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Miss Universe 2009: Rachael Finch Still The Favourite

At +500 (5/1) odds, Miss Australia Rachael Finch is still favored to win Sunday night's Miss Universe 2009 pageant, though Sportsbook.com gives perennial favorite Miss Dominican Republic shorter odds. Only she and Miss Mexico enjoyed single digit odds (Miss Mexico came in at +800 odds).

The beauty has already signed on to be part of Celebrity MasterChef Australia and now lingerie powerhouse Victoria's Secret, according to the Telegraph of Australia.

From the Telegraph:

The beauty has declined to talk about offers she has received but a manager associated with Finch, Grant Dwyer, said he was getting dozens of approaches every day from companies representing everything from cosmetics to racing.

All odds to win Miss Universe 2009 appear below (in alphabetical order) and were available at Sportsbook.com

Miss Albania +1800

Miss Angola +8000

Miss Argentina +2500

Miss Aruba +6000

Miss Australia +500

Miss Bahamas +5000

Miss Belgium +2000

Miss Bolivia +8000

Miss Brazil +2000

Miss Bulgaria +12500

Miss Canada +4000

Miss Cayman Islands +3000

Miss China +7500

Miss Colombia +2000

Miss Costa Rica +1500

Miss Croatia +2500

Miss Curacao +3000

Miss Cyprus +10000

Miss Czech Republic +1200

Miss Dominican Republic +300

Miss Ecuador +3000

Miss Egypt +4000

Miss El Salvador +7500

Miss Estonia +10000

Miss Ethiopia +10000

Miss Finland +6000

Miss France +1200

Miss Georgia +10000

Miss Germany +3000

Miss Ghana +15000

Miss Great Britain +8000

Miss Greece +3500

Miss Guam +4500

Miss Guatemala +4000

Miss Guyana +15000

Miss Honduras +1500

Miss Hungary +1000

Miss Iceland +3000

Miss India +3000

Miss Indonesia +2500

Miss Ireland +2000

Miss Israel +10000

Miss Italy +4000

Miss Jamaica +1800

Miss Japan +1600

Miss Korea +10000

Miss Kosovo +6000

Miss Lebanon +2500

Miss Malaysia +6000

Miss Mauritius +6000

Miss Mexico +500

Miss Montenegro +10000

Miss Namibia +10000

Miss Netherlands +1200

Miss New Zealand +7500

Miss Nicaragua +4000

Miss Nigeria +10000

Miss Norway +6000

Miss Panama +2000

Miss Paraguay +4000

Miss Peru +2500

Miss Philippines +1800

Miss Poland +7500

Miss Puerto Rico +900

Miss Romania +10000

Miss Russia +1500

Miss Serbia +5000

Miss Singapore +5000

Miss Slovak Republic +2500

Miss Slovenia +15000

Miss South Africa +2500

Miss Spain +2500

Miss Sweden +4000

Miss Switzerland +2500

Miss Tanzania +6000

Miss Thailand +6000

Miss Turkey +7500

Miss Turks and Caicos +17500

Miss USA +1000

Miss Ukraine +1500

Miss Uruguay +15000

Miss Venezuela +1800

Miss Vietnam +2000

Miss Zambia +10000

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Media Man International Blog: News Flashback

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News Flasback

October 2011

The Coalition's decision to oppose slot machine reform has made "independent" Andrew Wilkie even more gun ho in pushing the law for change even if it comes to bringing down the unpopular Gillard Government.

"I will not budge on mandatory pre-commitment on high intensity poker machines," he said.

It goes something like this...

Prime Minister Julia Gillard promised to introduce curbs on problem gamblers in return for his support of the minority Labor Government. He has set the budget in May as the deadline for the delivery of the promise, either by voluntary agreement by the states and territories or by overriding federal legislation.

The Federal Government is trying to work out how to implement the mandatory pre-commitment technology, with the states and territories unlikely to agree on firm action by Wilkie's deadline.

The tech would basically force poker machine players to register before playing and to use a card to choose how much they wanted to gamble in one session. It's understood some punters will find loopholes around the mousetrap, such is their desire to play.

Some Labor MPs are disturbed by the aggressive campaign being waged by clubs...a key Labour support area...against mandatory restrictions on problem gambling.

Opposition leader Tony Abbott advised this week the Coalition would vote against the legislation if the Government decided to bring it to Parliament.

Although independent Tony Windsor has concerns about the move, Wilkie believes the legislation would be successful.

"I think the numbers are there in the Parliament for this to pass into law but I have obviously made it the Government's challenge to out and get those numbers," he said.

Wilkie is super determined to act if the legislation hasn't been approved, even though this would result in mayhem, something Labour is used to by now, and would not actually achieve poker-machine reform.

"The next morning I'd call a press conference and tear up my agreement with the Prime Minister," he said. "If I was Opposition Leader, I'd probably move very quickly to bring on a no confidence motion in the Government on its inability to deliver poker machine reform, which, on the fact of it, I'd probably support.

"Mind you, the new Opposition could then turn around and bring on a no confidence motion in Tony Abbott on poker machine reform and I'd have to support that as well, because he is not going to help me out there. But the Government has made things a bit simpler for me, because the Labor Party now has a worse policy than the Coalition on irregular immigration. I assume Tony Abbott would race to an election ... I reckon he'd go out to Government House that day and say the situation is unstable."

Wilkie predicted the Coalition would win an election held next year in those circumstances.

"I don't think the Labor fortunes are going to turn around for some time yet," he said.

What party are you going to gamble on? Make your vote count.