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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...

Gambling’s $160m hit

Gambling’s $160m hit

Mercury Newspaper | July 2, 2021Report shines spotlight on controversial industryPROBLEM gambling costs the Tasmanian community up to $160m each year, although the true extent of the social and economic damage is impossible to measure, a new report has found.Gambling...

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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