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Sir Max Bingham – Anti-Pokies Support

Sir Max Bingham – Anti-Pokies Support

Media Release| 9 August 2021   Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb’s submission on the Future Gaming Markets legislation includes independent economic modelling showing Tasmanian taxpayers missing out on at least $367 million to the poker machine industry.The...

Federal coy on sale of hotels

Federal coy on sale of hotels

Rob Inglis |Mercury Newspaper | 13 July 2021 FEDERAL Group isn’t saying whether it intends to sell off any of its 12 pubs, with the state government’s proposed gaming policy set to significantly increase their capital value.The new model for Tasmania’s gaming...

New gaming legislation must do more to reduce harm in the community

New gaming legislation must do more to reduce harm in the community

 Andrew Chounding |Examiner | 8 July , 2021Critics of the state's proposed gaming legislation say new changes do not address the social impact gambling has on the community, and that more must be done to address the harm caused.The proposed legislation would see an...

Draft gaming reforms cut tax rate on pokies

Draft gaming reforms cut tax rate on pokies

Catherine Zengerer | ABC Mornings | July 8, 2021   Meg Webb MLC speaks about the Tasmanian Government's draft gaming legislation with Catherine Zengerer on ABC Mornings. Read more on Meg's Pokies page

Government reveals new gambling tax rates as Federal monopoly ends

Government reveals new gambling tax rates as Federal monopoly ends

David Killick | The Mercury | July 8, 2021  FEDERAL Group will lose around $20 million a year when its gambling monopoly ends under new tax arrangements unveiled by the state government on Wednesday.But the announcement has anti-gambling campaigners adamant that the...

Gambling comes at a $160 million cost to Tasmania, new report finds

Gambling comes at a $160 million cost to Tasmania, new report finds

Examiner Newspaper | July 2, 2021 Gambling is estimated to cost the Tasmanian community up to $160 million a year, the latest Social and Economic Impact Study for gaming has found.The report, released on Thursday, found the most significant quantifiable cost of...

While pokies were closed
due to COVID-19
Tasmanians saved

Poker machines were closed in Tasmania on March 23, 2020
and reopened on June 26, 2020.
In 2018-19 Tasmanians lost $171,603,745 to poker machines

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