Lucy Breaden | ABC Southern Drive | July 1, 2021Â Â
Poker Machines
Tasmanian poker machine research released
Pia Wirsu | ABC Northern Tasmania Drive | July 1, 2021
Media Release – SEIS – No Clean Bill of Health
Media Release | July 1, 2021Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb said the 5th Social & Economic Impact Study (SEIS) on gambling in Tasmania is not a cleanbill of health for the Gutwein Liberal Government.“Gambling expenditure remains high and appears to now be...
Address-in-Reply: Governor’s Address 2021
Ms WEBB (Nelson) - Madam Deputy President, I rise to make my contribution to the Governor's Address-in-Reply. I congratulate Her Excellency, Barbara Baker, on commencing her term as Governor of Tasmania. I am particularly pleased, for only the second time in the...
Media Release – Labor Leadership Pokies Position
Media Release | May 27, 2021   Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today called on the Labor leadership candidates – David O’Byrne and Shane Broad – to declare their position on pokies.“Both leadership candidates need to come clean to Labor Members ahead of the...
Poker machine spin rates and bet limit changes off the table for Liberals and Labor in gambling reform
Adam Holmes | Examiner | April 28, 2021Â Â Neither the Liberals nor Labor would commit to slowing down spin rates or reducing maximum bets for poker machines as part of harm minimisation measures when gambling reform legislation comes before parliament later this...
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...
Secret gambling industry MOU is an election issue
Meg Sydes| 7 News | March 31, 2021Â Â Labor secret signing of gambling MOU is unacceptable. Meg Webb questions what other secret deals have been made by political parties.
Tasmanian Labor pledges to ‘support the rights’ of pubs and clubs to operate pokies, three years after pushing ban
Emily Baker | ABC News | March 31, 2021  Tasmanian Labor has signed a deal with the state's hospitality lobby stating the party "supports the rights" of pubs and clubs to operate poker machines — just three years after vowing to have them banned.Key points:Labor...
Pokies back on agenda
Mercury Newspaper | March 30, 2021Â Â 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...
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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