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Pokies losses hit $180 million since Gutwein became Tasmanian Premier

Pokies losses hit $180 million since Gutwein became Tasmanian Premier

Bob Burton | Tasmanian Inquirer & Guardian | April 26, 2021    Almost $500 million lost since the last state election  More than $180 million has been lost on Tasmanian poker machines since Peter Gutwein became Premier in January 2020, according to data from the...

Pokies back on agenda

Pokies back on agenda

Mercury Newspaper | March 30, 2021  PREMIER Peter Gutwein needs to release the tax rate for casino pokies during the election campaign, say independent member for Nelson Meg Webb and the Greens.Ms Webb, an anti-pokie campaigner, said if the government was still in...

Casino pokies tax rate is a campaign issue

Casino pokies tax rate is a campaign issue

Imogen Elliot | WIN News | March 29, 2021  “Either Premier Gutwein knows what this tax rate will be and is refusing to release it to avoid criticism during the election campaign or the government and Federal Group are still in secret negotiations on it,”  Read Meg’s...

Gaming reform delayed

Gaming reform delayed

Leon Compton | ABC Mornings | March 29, 2021  Meg Webb on delayed Tasmanian gaming reforms with Leon Compton ABC Mornings.Read Meg's media release on gaming donations

RTI – Responsible Gambling Mandatory Code of Practice

RTI – Responsible Gambling Mandatory Code of Practice

Information requested from Treasury and Finance on 21 Jan 2021. Decision received 23 March 2021.   Regarding the 2017 review of the Responsible Gambling Mandatory Code of Practice for Tasmania, please provide all correspondence and other interactions including, but...

Tasmanian gambling reform a sticking point between profit and purpose

Tasmanian gambling reform a sticking point between profit and purpose

Brinley Duggan | Examiner Newspaper | February 6, 2021    The future of gaming in Tasmania has sent stakeholders into a spin.The state government's future gaming policy was released for comment in February last year.The policy proposed limiting the number of pokies in...

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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