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Pinball makeover celebrates 25 years of Truth From classic old machine to a modern work of art A GOTTLIEB pinball machine has been rebuilt and rebadged to create a special Hutchies’ Truth game to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the company’s popular quarterly publication. Hutchies’ Truth, as it is known today, first appeared in late 1993. The new Hutchies’ machine to be unveiled this year was converted from a 1984 Gottlieb classic, The Games, based loosely on the Olympic Games held in Los Angeles that same year. The score-raising “pages” of the Hutchies’ Truth pinball machine feature readers’ favourites like Travelling Undies, Budgie Smugglers, Hutchies’ Honeybees, Hatched and Matched, Jobs Update, Scratch-its and includes five generations of Jacks. Hutchies currently has 31 pinball machines in the national network with more on the way. Chairman Scott Hutchinson said that pinball machines had proven popular since being installed in reception areas in many offices around the country. “Intra-office pinball competitions are strong team-building tools that bring people together in friendly rivalry as they are both entertaining and involve skill,” said Scott. “Pinball machines use amazing technology and more modern pinball games have increasingly complicated rule sets that require strategy and planning by the player for maximum scoring; they’re not just a mindless pastime”. Competitive pinball has made a resurgence and has become increasingly popular in recent years, with the relaunch of the
International Flipper Pinball Association mechanical history worth saving for (IFPA) and the Professional and Amateur posterity.” Hutchies wanted something really special Pinball Association (PAPA). and unique to mark Scott said old “Some companies have priceless the 25 year milestone pinball machines had art collections in the boardrooms, of Hutchies’ Truth. become collectors’ “This is a oneitems and refurbished but Hutchies is different – we have off and one of a machines were now pinball machines in the foyers.” kind machine that good investments for will provide enjoyment for many the future. “Some companies have priceless art team members, clients and visitors collections in the boardrooms, but Hutchies to our offices for a long time to come,” is different – we have pinball machines in said Scott. the foyers,” he said. “The machines are like Rock ‘n’ Roll How Gottlieb changed the game... George’s FX Holden which we have in storage at the Queensland Museum, in that the evolution of pinball – Page 2 they are important pieces of social and
Pinball wizard, Jack Hutchinson Jnr, is a ranked player with the International Flipper Pinball Association (IFPA).
Federal Government extends Indigenous work program THE Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet has extended Hutchies’ Statim-Yaga (start work) program which has placed 350 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders into the construction industry since 2015 – six months ahead of its scheduled target date of June 2019. A new target of an additional 200 Indigenous jobseekers placed by 2020 is the goal of the extended program. The extension is acknowledgement of the success of Statim-Yaga with Hutchies and its subcontractors and suppliers. • Full story Page 3.
LEFT: Hutchies’ Indigenous co-ordinator, Joel Anderson, (left) and Indigenous program manager, Mark Kucks, with Kubbi Kubbi Dancers, at the sod-turning ceremony for the Aura project on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.