Meg Sydes| 7 News | March 31, 2021 Labor secret signing of gambling MOU is unacceptable. Meg Webb questions what other secret deals have been made by political parties.
Poker Machines
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, 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...
Tax rate of poker machine takings works its way into 2021 Tasmanian state election campaign
Matt Maloney | Advocate Newspaper | March 29, 2021 Premier Peter Gutwein will not reveal whether the government has set a tax rate for poker machines in Tasmanian casinos ahead of legislation being released after the election.Federal Group are charged 35 per cent tax...
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
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
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
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...
Fresh spin on pokies
David Killick | Mercury Newspaper | February 3, 2021 Resumption of reform process draws renewed flakCHANGES to Tasmania’s controversial gaming machine regulations are back on the agenda.Key elements of the reform process include allowing pubs and clubs to own and...
Media Release – Future Gaming Markets
Media Release | February 2, 2021 Independent Member for Nelson Meg Webb today called on the Gutwein Liberal Government to respond to the multitude of unanswered questions raised in submissions to its own Future Gaming Market (FGM) legislation.“The Gutwein...
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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